My Dad

[dot.hawkes]

was a farmer for all of his working, he used a horse and plough from the age of 8 and knew the land and crops and animals, what did/does your dad do for a living?

[wonderwoman1]

hi Dot.hawkes

my dad is a manager in BT, he manages big accounts and leads a team of 20 people. its great because he can get tickets for everything that goes on a hampden and murrayfield stadiums....including Robbie!!!! woo hoo!!

[SaxyJag]

Mine was a knitting machine engineer. He used to set up the machines to make all the fancy sock designs. He also did a lot of work on developing new types of machines, and was the first man to get a machine to make those 'rosette toe' tights that you could buy a few years ago.

[sponsmith]

My Dad is a roofer.
Not my cup of tea, but he has always earned good money.

[purpose]

What a lovely question!

My dad was an architect. Recently retired.

Perhaps if he had been a farmer, i would not have had my fear of horses!

[raysparx]

Hi dot, my old dad was a french polisher,but he packed that in and spent the last 15 years or so of his working life as a roadsweeper,and he loved every minute of it,he passed away about 12 years ago but I still think how lucky he was to do a job he loved, Take care dot, Ray xx

[Poglet]

dot, my dad is a builder but my grandad was a farmer (well farm worker), as was my partner before he was made redundant 2 years ago and his dad also and he did the horse/plough thing. His dad is still so fit, does loads of gardening etc for people and hes 77 now! I miss going to see my other half in the fields, in his tractor and especially the combine. We had some fun in those fields.... :) x

[purplelily]

My Dad was an electronic engineer until he retired - still does all the electics and electronics (and pretty much everything else!) for us all though! Ahh, bless 'im. Lovely question, thanks Dot!

[shaneystar2]

My dad was born in 1903 and left school at the age of eleven to go to sea in the drifters with his father.He went into the army and then went back to trawl fishing ,then took his engineers certificate.He was then in the Merchant Navy up to ,during and after the war.He went back to trawling and when the fishing declined we moved to Kent and he worked on the power stations where he contracted asbestos in his lungs and he died in 1973.And I still miss him.

[dot.hawkes]

Ordinary heroes eh Shaneystar?

[shaneystar2]

Very true Dot ...and apart from the memorial at Tower Hill to the Merchant Seaman lost in WW11..there is nothing else to commerate the sterling job they did. My Dad was in the tankers taking fuel to the fleet in Scapa Flow dodging the bombs along the way and when he used to come home on leave the dog wouldn't let the poor devil get in the air raid shelter.!

[Fibonacci]

My dad joined the army medical corps in the 1930s and ended up in the far east , was captured and spent most of WWII in a notorious japanese prisoner of war camp. He survived, many of his friends did not, and he never talked much about the experences of camp life. After the war he married and left the army and joined the civil servcie for a quieter life and to bring up a family. He passed away many years ago but he lived to see his first grandchild born and I my glad to have had him as a a dad and friend.

[sexyrussian]

My Dad is a pathologist .My Mum stays at home but she is a trained physics teacher.

[dot.hawkes]

Hey IAP are you a Dad?

[unruliejulie]

My dear old dad was a second hand car salesman (don't laugh) he wasn't like Arther daley though!In fact he died on the forecourt doing what he loved and was good at. He was also a Drummer in a club at night and when i was about 12 i used to go with him to Derby and sit in his dressing room at the side of the stage looking in the mirror with the bulbs around it. I felt like a star!!! Then i would sit on the step so i could see him on stage and he would give me a wave as he played. So proud! and still am!!!

[unruliejulie]

sorry dot, meant to say, thanks for a lovely question that gave me chance to mention my lovely Dad!

[orangelady]

Unruliejulie, how proud you must have been, what beautiful memories to treasure foreverxx

[alijangra]

My dad worked on supply boats all over the world when he was young. He married my mum when he was 35 and became a builder so he could stay at home. He now is a manager for a timber frame company but he will be retiring soon. He can also speak French, German and Gaelic, travels to Romania every year where he and his friends have built a church through fundraising they do all year round. He can also sing and play guitar, runs a church youth group. So I think he is absolutely fab and the best person in the whole world!

[dot.hawkes]

hi iap i've been waiting for you to get back. It's something I can't imagine I guess, not having had a dad for most of your life and not being a parent, but there's the other way to it, I had my Dad all my life and lost him so suddenly a short time ago, and maybe the loss is greater in alot of ways, when you've had that and lose it. I don't know how i would have coped without him growing up though, that's frightening to me. We are all alone eventually I guess.