re: What did your grandparents do for a living?

She held brief jobs to help make ends meet as needed; cashier/retail jobs and school cafeteria manager for about 10 years; she mostly stayed home to raise me and my brother. Dad is a retired Navy Senior Chief, got a Computer Science degree after he retired in 79 and spent the next 25 years working for Coca-Cola and some of their subsidiaries.

ETA: I never met Mom's parents, her father left when she was 12; her mother died (hit by a train, of all things) when she was 16.

Mom's Dad worked for a chicken processing company
Mom's Mom worked at a jewelry store.

Dad's dad I really don't know. He died when I was 2 or so.

Grandfather on my mother's side, was a salesman. Wholesale groceries for a while, then worked for a car dealership. He died in his fifties. ETA, he was a hell of a salesman. He was always winning awards. Trips, jewelry, etc.

Grandmother on my mother's side, worked in a department store, after that in a pharmacy.

Grandparents on my father's side, both were educators. My grandmother taught elementary school, my grandfather was a basketball coach and HS principal.

Maternal -Grandpa was a truck driver and bar owner . Grandmother was a stay at home mom Ouachita parish

Paternal - Grandfather was a farmer . Dont think my grandmother did much of shite Gods country Richland parish

Maternal – grandpa - construction worker
- Grandma - Nurse
paternal – grandpa - farmer
- Grandma – helped on farm and later a telephone operator

Great grandparents were all farmers

Maternal - cattle business. Owned auction barn in Bastrop.

Paternal - farmed cotton in Mer Rouge

Mom's Dad was a blacksmith in Avoyelles Parish.
Dad's Dad was a small farmer raised everything they ate.
Both Grand mothers were gardners, each raised 8 kids.

Dads side farmed
Moms side taught school

Mother's side: Grandfather was an oil lease manager for Halibooty Oil in Hackberry. Grandmother was a lunchroom cook at HHS.
Father's side: Grandfather was a night watchman for W.T. Burton industries at their shipyard. Grandmother was a home maker..but earlier in life was a waitress when grandfather was a tugboat engineer (before he was a night watchman).