meembo

retired
lost three organs to cancer, but is really healthy today
was an Episcopal priest for 45 years
yellow-dog Democrat
father of 4 boys
I love him, and will miss him very much some day

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Pip

My dad is a Senior Systems Manager at one of the largest insurance companies in Sweden. He's the guy that made sure employees cannot surf for porn on company time. That was a source of many an amusing story. Trying to trick him into spilling company secrets is one of my favourite pastimes; he's usually one step ahead of me but sometimes I can crack him. Not telling you anything though!
He has worked in a paper mill, as a roadie and as a car mechanic, but got involved with computers some three decades ago. In spite of never going to college, he's quite an authority these days.
Fun random fact: My dad was born with only one eye. He refuses to wear an eye patch though.

tspikes51

My father is a great man, he's the controller (basically the treasurer plus other duties) of Color Point LLC, a greenhouse that grows flowers for Lowe's and a few other small places.

The most outstanding thing about dad is that he developed a rare disease, called pemphigus, when I was a freshman in high school. Pemphigus is an auto-immune disease that attacks the skin, leaving 2nd-degree-burn-like (as in the same pain and look) sores all over your skin. He underwent chemotherapy, and spent months in hospitals. While in the hospital, he contracted a staph infection in his hip, making walking painful and at times impossible. He nearly died multiple times (they had to recessitate him at least 3 times) right around Christmas when I was 16. He has made almost a complete recovery, and the disease has been in remission for more than two years now. Most importantly, he has a new appreciation for life that gives him something hard to find in anybody.

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Charlatan

My Dad hangs around with Fremen's zombie Dad.

Prior to being a zombie Dad, he owned his own truck and hauled sand and gravel.

I think he has fun squashing smaller cars in the highway to hell.

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- Old Man Luedecke

SecretMethod70

My dad is a plastics mold engineer and the vice president of a tool & die company. It sounds relatively cool, but it's not, and he certainly doesn't get paid like his title would suggest

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Le temps détruit tout

"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

analog

How can i explain? He works for a major (like, one of the biggest ones) military contractor; he's an electrical engineer.

Let's say a military tank, fighter jet, or aircraft carrier (or various other things like that) break down. He (and his team) write computer code that is hooked up to the on-board computers of the tank or jet or whatever, and their code determines what's wrong with the damn thing. Basically, diagnostic software that fixes it. So occasionally, he's flown out to an aircraft carrier, or the military rolls a tank into the plant, or they haul in a jet, and he makes sure the stuff they programmed fixes the problems it needed to, or if it needs tweaking.

DJ Happy

My Dad's retired now, but he used to be a corporate lawyer with Coca-Cola in London and Hong Kong.

Fun random fact: he went to Georgetown University and was in the same graduating year as Bill Clinton. Their 25th and 30th reunions were held at the White House.

Sgoilear

My dad is an elementary school music teach and part time ice carver. He also posesses an uncanny resemblance to me. Or is it the other way around?

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wombatman

CFO of the Education Foundation (the largest one) at U of South Carolina. If you hear about the U of South Carolina building something or buying something, it's 99% likely that the Education Foundation had some hand in actually getting things done. His job entails investing millions of dollars and looking at donated land/houses/etc.

He's also incredibly good at what he does. Considering he was the first from his family to go to college, it's that much more incredible.

Daoust

Pops is a blue collar electrician, working for Ontario Hydro, Pickering and Darlington Stations...

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But even when I'm on my knees I know the devil preys

Gilda

My biological father is a contractor who renovates old houses. If you've seen This Old House, he's practically a Norm Abrams clone.

The person I actually call Dad (or more precisely, otosan) Mr. Nakamura, is a cardiologist.

Gilda

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~Steven Colbert

Zeraph

"Dude! My dad owns a dealership dude. DP in the house!" /ATHF

My dad has done various things. Computer stuff and teaching mostly. He's basically retired now though.

little_tippler

My dad has already passed away. He used to be a lawyer and also a politician, he was once Minister of Labour and then a member of parliament. He was great at his job, and complicated in his personal life. That never made me love him less.

I think my mom deserves a mention too, why only daddies?

My mother is a scientist, she works in organic chemistry and is a total brain. She also dabbles in law, as an expert in scientific patent copy cases. She is the most perfeccionist, organized person I know but can also be very loving and giving when she chooses to. She has been through a lot in her life and I love her very much. There is no-one in the world I can ever be more grateful for. I almost lost her a few years ago but hopefully that will not happen again for a long while.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

gremlinx8

My dad is the president of a metal manufacturing company.

msh58

my dad works as a computer programmer at a health insurance company. Also writes songs, hasn't gotten one published yet or played on the radio but is working on it.

percy

My daddy retired as a senior executive from a multi-national corporation. He had a great job but was home about 5 days a month and even then wasn't really there. Busy, stress, etc,..kinda got cheated in my childhood cuz he wasn't around much but he spoiled me rotten. Still does.

Now he's a Director of a substance abuse facility but he's getting fed up with that. He is a hardcore results guy and I don't think the snails pace of what he is doing is fulfilling him. He doesn't really want to do consulting work because then it will be just like he never retired.

I've tried to get him to teach me golf (he is pretty good, 6 handicap) but he thinks women don't belong on the golf course. Kidding. He says if I take some lessons and shoot around 100 I can go. Then I won't embarrass him. Kidding again.

I'm so gonna miss him when his day comes. He is my hero.

TotalMILF

My daddy is a Wells Fargo Senior Vice President. He was a lawyer for a few years when I was a kid, but he got sick of it pretty quick. Still maintains his license, though. He used to edit the Mackinac Island newspaper waaay back in the day, too. He's a genius (literally), but he's emotionally retarded. Yet, I still love my daddy:-)

Bacchanal

My dad was in the marines for 23 years. He's been retired since I was about four, when we moved here. Now he does what he wants when he wants since he has pretty bad PTSD and is unemployable.

biznatch

That must've been the coolest thing to boast about when you were in elementary.
Mine works at Dannon

doodlebird

what a fun thread.

in his living days, my father was a chartered financial analyst. then he had a stress related heart attack. so he quit and looked for a biz he could run at his own pace. he chose a small machinery moving company. then he had another heart attack and sold the family biz to my brother in law, but only after i turned it down. he was always EXTREMELY fair with all three of us children... often to the penny and adjusted for inflation.

in these, his non-living days, i imagine that he passes much of his time playing golf, tinkering with lionel O gauge trains, drinking single malt scotches, and still trying to figure out why in the hell i chose to draw for a living.

he lives on in my constant efforts to be nicer to those around me, and in the patience, love, and support that i share with my own son... all of which i learned from his #1 job as the best father a boy could have.

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doodle

Suzz04

my dad was a alot of things... i'm not sure i even know all that he did lol

the things i do know was he was a car mechanic, a meat cutter, a miner, and a coal truck driver.

he's retired in his own way now. disabled from lifting those huge tires for those great big construction trucks (the name escapes me at the moment) and 4 heart attacks. so no more working for him. i know that has drove him batty over the years.

he mostly tinkers around with things. computers, guitar repairing, woodworking and collecting antiques.

he's made a few dossimers (correct me if i spelled that wrong lol)

i'm quite proud of the things he's done. all of it self taught. i really wish that i had the ease that he manages to pick up and learn things.

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Martian

Which one?

The man who sired me is a drunk who moonlights as a butcher. Assuming he's not a zombie dad as well; I haven't seen or heard for him in well over a year. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I reckon.

The man who filled the gap breeds dogs for a living, much to my mother's dismay. She doesn't do well living with a breeder; she gets attached to the dogs and has a hard time seeing them go.

When the time comes and I have the time and space for a dog, I will definitely be buying one of his.

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

raeanna74

My Daddy is a contractor. He does everything except plumbing. He does remodeling and new construction. He does heating, electrical (which is where he started out 25 years ago), pouring cement, siding, roofing and framing.
He has a bachelors in Electrical, one in Electronics, and a year in Robotics.
He's had his own business as long as I can remember. He loves his work.
He's been a mink farmer, a salesman, maintanance for a factory and a contractor. He's happiest being a contractor.

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My Karma just ran over your Dogma.

raeanna74

Did you mean dulcimers?? As in the musical instrament?

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keyshawn

Interesting thread

My dad worked for the city as pipe water repairmen for 25 years. He repaired the water pipes under the streets and as he gained experienced, he supervised others on the job. When he retired from the city, he started his own plumbing company, a one man operation. I would love to have the expertise in plumbing (also some heating/cooling, electricity, carpentry, auto mechanics, and general home repair that he has, but I'm not the most mechanically inclined. But, what he has taught me, is invaluable.

regards,
will.

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SexyCat

My Dad is in charge of making and updating private jets for a company. He deals with all the clients and makes sure that the projects stay on budget and on time. He has worked on jets for famous people of which the only one who I can specifically remember right now is Oprah, but I know he works on a lot.

Jeff

My dad owns an asphalt-paving company, I love him too much.

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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
--Charles Bukowski

Tamerlain

My dad is a refrigeration mechanic. He used to manage the accounts for a refrigeration company when he was my age, but he realized he could do what the mechanics were doing better than they could, and the pay was about triple what he was making managing the books.

-Tamerlain

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f6twister

My dad has joined those in eternal retirement. He always wanted to retire so when he died before that could happen, I figured this would have to be his retirement.

Prior to eternal retirement, he worked in a cattle slaughter house for 30 years. He supervised the loading and unloading of 200-800 lb sides of beef. It was always interesting going to work with him. Walking through a cooler surrounded by sides of beef dripping blood onto the floor as you catch a glimpse of of a rack filled with cow tongues. For some reason, they didn't participate in the Take Your Child to Work day.

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nukeu666

my daddy fixes broken bones

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Why did the Comp. Engineer get X-mas and Halloween mixed up?
Because Oct(31) == Dec(25)

blade02

Not really, Huntsville is a huge engineering town. So everyone's dad is a "rocket scientist". More people I meet at college find it more impressive. I took me awhile to figure out that not everyone comes from a town where atleast 75% of the kids at school have parents with college degrees.