re: What did your grandparents do for a living?

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Why? What's the outdoor angle here?

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In other words, you didn't have grandparents.


Dad's dad was a rigger for construction. Finished career at Shell Plant in Norco.

Mom's dad was a welding foreman at the Shell Plant in Norco.

Connect the dots, and here I am.

My dads side: Grew up dirt poor, inherited a large sum of money and land from an uncle. He owned a gas station in the
50 & 60s raised cows and was police juror.

Never really knew my grandpa on my mothers side other than he was a tail gunner in WW ll.

Farmers. Cotton and soy bean. Also an engineer. Both grandmas were stay at home mothers.

Dad's side:

Grandfather started out pig farming, became a laborer on pipelines and then became a crane operator in the 1960's. It was kind of tough on his family growing due to his father passing away when he was 6 months old. Gramps was the baby and relied on uncles and older brothers for role models. He always tells me how grateful I should be to be able to refer to someone as "daddy."

Grandmother grew up sharecropping (cotton), but was a stay at home mom as an adult. She was the oldest girl. Her mom became sickly later on and this caused my grandmother to basically raise the family. Turned her into one hell of a great woman.

Mom's side:

Grandfather came from a farming background. He was the oldest. His father died when he was 11, his baby brother was badly burned playing with fire and died as a result. My grandfather never allowed his kids to use fireworks because of that. He recieved an exemption from being drafted during the Korean War as a result of him being the primary breadwinner for his family. Died a millionaire and one of the largest farmers in the region.

Grandmother: Came from another farming family. Stay at home mom. Sweet lady, but terrible cook. She never learned how to cook. That was the "helps" job.

Dad's side - had a farm and eventually my Paw Paw worked for Dow until retiring, Maw Maw worked the farm and raised the kids.

Mom's side - Paw Paw was a banker then started his own business, Maw Maw was an RN at OLOL.

Dad definitely married up.

Moms - Banker

Dads - Oil and Rancher

Paternal:
GF was in the fruit business
GM was a mom and a bookie (no shite)

Maternal:
GF was a dentist
GM was a housemom

Mom's side: grandpa was/is an accountant, grandma was/is a bookkeeper. kind of the same, but still different...both office jobs.

Dad's side: grandpa was an appliance sales man, then bus driver also fixed (and still fixes) washers and dryers on the side...he also raised goats and pigeons and maybe some chickens. grandma worked at Wal-Mart when I was little ...not sure what she did when my dad was young.

Both my pow pow were plant operators.

Go figure how I ended up here.