zharvey

Yes, just like that fun game in Kindergarten Cop....

My dad administrates self-insurance worker's comp trusts in the oil & fuel industry.

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Hash_Browns

My Dad is a carpenter. He owns his own company and frames houses year round. They just did some work on a really cool 'bridge' house in Ann Arbor. This house is pretty neat looking, but to small in my opinion. I'll try to find a link to the architechs's (sp?) website. He's done some pretty neat stuff with building houses on steel beams.

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Sage

My dad is a supervisor at Leviton-Southern Devices Division. He works in their machiene plant. Leviton makes all kinds of cool stuff that you never thought you needed but can't live without- injection molded faceplates for light switches, power plugs, that sort of thing- lots of electrical. Got a lamp in your house? Take out the bulb- see the thing the bulb screws into? Chances are it's Leviton brand.

It's a CNC machineing job, basically, but he is the shift supervisor and basically the only person in the building that keeps all the wheels greased and things moving along. He's so freaking smart it's incredible

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Poppinjay

He putters around the house. Some days he goes out on his boat. Some days he fishes. Some days he feeds the ducks. Despite the natural friction between father and son, his life of ease is quickly making him my idol.

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ShaniFaye

My daddy is retired but he did work for Plantation Pipeline (yes one of the companies that had to get the pipelines back online during Katrina). He started there in 1968 digging pipeline ditches and by the time he retired in 2000 he managed the whole SE area (GA, AL, MS, LA). His main job was keeping all the pumping stations online

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yellowchef

My Daddy doesnt do shit. Ok so I lie, he has a degree in horticulture and landscape architecture but hes done a lot of other stuff in his life. Right now he works for DRS Control Systems and he makes cool little pieces and components for various military vehicles and gadgets. Hes the lead guy(they stole him from Albertsons) so hes the one in charge of getting all the parts where they need to go and stuff... like timbuktu Iraq...

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jth

my Daddy works for the Canadian government in the department of Fisheries like a good Nova Scotian boy would in sort of a medium high profile job lol.

He also makes great seafood chowder... go figure

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Jinn

My daddy plays video games most of the time, with occasional breaks to make his weekly trip down to the local hardware store; he sharpens chainsaws, sawblades, machetes, etc.. for their customers.

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stevie667

My dad is a director with a property development firm, or so he says.
I think he just plays golf all day.

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blade02

Aerospace Engineer. His main focus these days is ananlyzing missile systems. Before then it was more on the missile defense programs that almost all of my friend's dads work on. (in Huntsville, Alabama)

BadNick

My dad was an artist, but even more unusual, he made a good living at it and supported his family well doing that for his whole life. ...he died a few years ago but everytime I see one of his paintings it brings back lots of good memories.

Most of his income was from ecclesiastical art and decoration ...mostly churches of course... but some other stuff too like the Academy of Music, Masonic Temple, hotel lobbies, private homes, etc. He also always painted "paintings" for fun and profit but most income was this other aspect of his work.

Plummie

My daddy works as a manager/mechanical engineer at Lexmark. He can beat your daddy up.

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snowy

My dad is the high school principal of a moderately-sized high school in Washington State. He has also been a lifeguard in Miami, a history teacher, a basketball coach, an assistant principal, and a Director of Curriculum and Instruction. He has been the principal of four high schools, one he helped build from the ground up and two others that he helped to remodel extensively. He has been working in the public school systems since the fall of 1969. He was the winner of the Washington Award for Excellence in Education the first year they introduced it, and has been nominated once since then.

Notably, when I job-shadowed at his latest high school, almost all of the staff I saw made a point to take me aside and tell me what a great boss my dad is. He is generally well-respected in the state for his work, has served in the past as the budget chair for the principal's association, and is currently serving as the representative for his league. His specialities include school law, curriculum and instruction, standardized testing, and school construction, among others.

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Psycho Dad

My dad sits in a chair, watches Bonanza reruns at maximum volume and tries not to piss on himself.

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Fremen

My dad stays dead.




/skeered of zombie dad

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noodle

My dad is a mechanic. He kicks ass and taught me how to fix my own car, so I'm never stuck anywhere. He works for an asshole at a dealership, now, but used to own his own business. He was too nice to old ladies and traded oil changes for pies. Dad also once was a carpenter, and did house construction with his brother.

Right now he rolls around the house in an office chair because he's recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery.

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Sweetpea

my dad is an aerospace engineer. he's traveled around the world and he's one of the foremost engineers in his field... i'm really proud of him. I think he wishes i had the technical mind that he has and my sister has so i could understand all their geek convos.

sweetpea

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Grasshopper Green

My dad quit an electrical engineering job to become an elementary school teacher about 8 years ago. He's been a fulltime teacher for 3 years now. I volunteer in his classroom and I have to say, he's damn good at his job I'm proud of him for going back to college so late in life and doing a job that makes him proud instead of making him more money.

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Rodney

My dad was an old Okie who went to war and came back... not the same. Didn't take stress well. Best to leave him alone, though that's hard for a kid to figure out. He fit pipes together with the Steamfitters for 30 years. The he spent 10 years in semi-retirement (aka civil service) doing the same thing on nuclear submarines. Mostly on graveyard, working alone; as far as I could tell, it was the happiest time of his life. These last few years he's been keeping a crypt warm for my mother: alone.

In the meantime, Mom went and married another Okie. Hope there's room for them all down there!

la petite moi

My dad was a mechanical engineer for Chevron/Texaco. Now he is trying to set up his own business.

MSD

Since September 16, 2002, my dad has patiently performed the task of inside of an intricately designed and furnished wooden box, which in turn has occupied a space of approximately 40 cubic feet located at a depth not exceeding two metres (with an allowable tolerance of approximately one third of a mtere,) below the surface of Saint John's cemetery ins Stamford, CT.

Prior to this he was a network analyst/engineer, and due to his engineering background I felt that he would find the above description sufficient, if not morbidly humorous.

Crack

my dad is fixes houses, and does all kind of crap that I have no clue about.
He also claims to be your dad too, and asked me to tell you to say hi to your mom for him.

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aberkok

My dad is a professor of economics at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He finally has a tenured position (after dragging us all around the western hemisphere) and loves it. His areas of specialization are health economics, defense economics and game theory.

Unlike what a lot of environmentalists think, not all economists are blind to "true-cost" economics, and I'm proud to say my dad's all over that shit! He's a member of Greenpeace and is always looking for ways to cut down our family's enviornmental footprint. He's mad about soccer too! He watches it whenever he gets the chance and he's well into his 50s and still plays at least once a week.

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BigBen

Awesome. Poppinjay, you have restored my faith in humanity...

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ngdawg

My dad is a big brick of a guy with a goatee. Today he got roto-rootered because, as he so eloquently put it 'the carburetor works, but the hoses need fixin'. Later, it was found out his carburetor might have not worked too well at least once.
He was always a fabulous artist, but discouraged me from pursuing art growing up, saying there was 'no money in it'. Took me all these years to find out he might be right. Instead, he sold stuff; Kirby vaccuums, appliances, ac units, now mortgages (yep, still works at 76 years young)
He taught me to throw a perfect spiralling football, draw simple things by noticing everything on earth has a shape and made sure my spelling was spot on.
He had a pretty good super8 porn collection, still gets Playboy and sends me dirty jokes in email.

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Bagezio2

My dad is a bum. But before that he was a bartender, waiter, chef, miner, priest, and driver for DHL

Craven Morehead

My dad was a farmer, a salesman, a small business owner and a politician. He was very successful at all. I hope I can accomplish half of what he has in his life. And hope his life lasts long, he's in his early 80's and still works every day. My dad's pretty incredible.

absorbentishe

My dad is retired, and has been for 20 years- and god was that a long 20 years. I see him once a week now, and we're okay for the first 5 minutes or so, after that, I'd like for him to leave. He worked for Toledo Scale, yes you've all heard the joke "Toledo, Toledo's a great place, been weighed there many times!". Now he does stuff, like being the leader of an old peoples band, and VFW stuff. Not too many WWII guys left...

yellowchef

Other useless things my Daddy has done, hippie, alcoholic, some sort of Electrician type thing in the USAF, taught Army and Air Force survival school, uh.... oh Oil Field Electrician while we lived in Oklahoma, he did some contract work for Haliburton(and no hes not ashamed you should see the checks they write) oh and hes been a cart boy at the golf course for extra cash around the holidays(because in the winter there is no landscape to design) and despite all his flaws(and believe me they are many) hes always been my Daddy.(and my 4 siblings too) He also taught me the value of hard work.

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always remeber you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. But..you CAN choose the insane asylum where you have them all put away!

ryfo

My daddy has retired up to the border of Queensland and he is busy driving my mother crazy...lol

Johnny Pyro

My daddy was a computer engineer up to the day of his death. I Grew up pretty wealthy, now I got shit!

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Blackthorn

Professionally my father was a manufacturing engineer at a pharmaceutical company. He would be routinely called by F.D.A. inspectors for clarificaiton on standards, best practices, and law.

More importantly he was the son of Irish immigrants who learned at a very early age that the value of a dollar was not easily measured by what you could buy with it. He was a hard working man of integrity who valued being true to his word more than the size of his wallet. If he said he was going to do it...he did. If he said he was going to be there...he was. If he said you could borrow his coat he would also give you his hat, gloves and boots. He honored his word as himself and that is why he is still my greatest hero.

Rest in peace RJR... you earned it!

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Marvelous Marv

Ask him if he needs those socks he left under her bed!

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Marvelous Marv

My dad worked for the government for his entire career. Then he did consulting, then he golfed. Shot a 70 once when he was 72, but unfortunately, he didn't pass that gene along. Or maybe it was crackprogram's father who didn't give me enough golf genes.

A very honest guy who always put his kids' needs before his own.

Now he sits around all day and asks my mom the same question 20 times. I hope he didn't pass along the Alzheimer's gene either.

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grumpyolddude

A beautiful truibute, Blackthorn! Your second paragraph eloquently voices how I view my own father. We've been lucky, you, myself and our various siblings, to have had such great men caring for us and teaching us through their example.

My father was an electrical contractor by day, and a factory electrician at an auto plant by night. He worked until his body broke to raise eleven children, and we never wanted for a thing. He also found time to teach us how to handle a hammer and saw; attended uncountable sporting events, concerts, picnics and plays; read ever printed word that crossed his vision (and retained!); and could kick your ass at whatever card game you fancied. While not the most educated, he was the smartest person I will ever know.

Next week marks the thirteenth anniversary of his passing. I think of him every day.

cj2112

I'm fortunate enough to have two dads.

My Dad is retired, he spent his life teaching me wrong from right, not only by word but by deed. Whenever I am faced with a moral dilemma, I simoply ask myself what would my Dad do if he were in this situation, and the answer becomes very clear. He wasn't a man of many words but there was never any doubt about how he felt about me and my siblings. He is one of the most giving people I have ever known, I can't remember a time that we didn't one non-family member or another staying in our home. He worked tirelessly (often 12hr days 7 days a week) as an instrument technician in various oil refineries to put food on the table for us four kids and whoever happened to be living with us. After my parents divorced he remarried several years later and adopted my step-moms three pree teen girls and treated them no different than he did his own. I'm proud to be his son.

My step-dad (who is also an awesome man) is my second dad. He came into my life when I was a very troubled teenager, and never once treated me any different than his own son. He also never gave up on me (and I gave him more than enough reason to do so.) He also taught me the value of doing the right thing, and has taught me many life skills. He also is retired. He was a mechanic (in several different industries), welder, machinist, refrigeration tech, president of his machinists local twice, and I honestly believe the man can fix anything. He now spends his time loving my mom, working on their house, reloading shotgun ammo so he can shoot skeet 3 days a week.

Both my Dads are the greatest Grandpa's a kid could ever want. The light in my childrens eyes when they see them makes my day....everytime.

LazyBoy

My father is a pharmacist, he also owns a small company in California, and we are both invested in some businesses based out of Florida (Melbourne)

-Will

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rhaevyn

My dad is the regional manager for an electrical testing company.

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basmoq

My father is a fucking child molesting bastard, fresh out of jail, may he rot in hell!

My father in law, however, is a owner operator truck driver and the greatest guy I know. He's all the father I need!

Last but not least, my "adopted" (quotes because I adopted them, my childhood friend's parents) father is a purchasing manager for ITT aero-space technologies manufacturing side.

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