Is there an occupation that is common in your family?

Teachers

I have 7 cousins who are teachers (I’m one, as well). Next would be nurses, my sister and 4 other cousins are nurses.

I do have a lot of cousins on my Mom’s side, though—35. My Grandma was in the nunnery right before she met my Grandpa. My Grandpa was a lanky, handsome Scotsman. He enjoyed a good highball or two and swore like a sailor. She left the nunnery and a year later she met him at church. She thought that she could change his wild ways, and she did. They settled down, got married and had 8 kids.

Social work.
My mum, Nana, a cousin, 2 aunts all work in a field that has to do with child pyschology, or councelling of some sort. One of my Aunts also works at juvie if that relates to the group.

Occupations involving the federal government are common in my family.

Nurses, or some occupation in medical field. There are too many nurses to list.

Well, I was going to say that sociopaths seem to run in my family. My daughter for sure and most likely my mother. Or perhaps she was a borderline personality. Yours truly was not afflicted, nor was my son or my dad. Fortunately, it’s a small family and getting smaller all the time. I’m rather envious (in a good way) of those of you who have a family with many people in similar professions.

Farmers.

Same as jmah and phoenyx! My mom’s a teacher, father was on the school board, 3 of 4 grandparents were teachers, and my sister is in school to become a teacher. That’s just my immediate family, the extended have even more!

Maybe this says something about the type of people that use Fluther?

I think that kids gain some kind of exposure to the field their parents work in, and therefore may be more likely to follow suit (if it is a positive exposure) or rebel (if it is negative) as a result. But that this can be overridden by other factors – like personality type or your goals and values, etc. I don’t think it is linked to genetics in any obvious way. If there is a relationship it seems like a complex one.

There is no trend in my family, although we do seem to be a family of introverts. I dated a guy where everyone in his family was a doctor. My current bf’s family is a family of lawyers and judges, with a few notable exceptions. Some of the people in that family felt pressured to study law, while some perhaps really do enjoy it, and a very few others rebelled and did something else.

On the other hand, I read recently that intelligence is largely genetic. Therefore if you come from a family of well educated people, you are likely to have brain power as well; and vice-versa.

Education, journalism, social outreach and educational administration.

Our family seems to hit a wide array of professions but typically we mix science and the arts to varying degrees. We also have a tendency not to follow the herd.

In my generation we have a professor of English (and a poet), a musician/singer/songwriter, and a scientist/artist/actor. In my parent’s generation we have four scientists. In my grandparent’s generation we had a scientist, a time-and-motion expert/insurance salesman/business executive/farmer/translator yes, that was all one guy who had to leave school in sixth grade to help the family out. a bunch of housewives, a bunch of businessmen, several oil and lumber barons, the first female reporter, and a tuba player.

The threads that appear again and again throughout the family are 1) definitely a dominant gene for nearsightedness, 2) a tendency towards being ADD, 3) a tendency to suffer from depression, and 4) indoor jobs.

Nursing, my father, my mom, my grandmother, my aunt, two of my cousins, and hopefully soon ME!

Is unemployment an occupation? That seems to be a popular one on my father’s side.

Drinking? Megalomania? Psychosis? Our family tree got burned in a brush-fire.

Engineers ___ But my family isn’t (My mom, dad, sister and me) Just everyone else related to us xD

Yes. Teachers and preachers run in my family. I don’t think there’s an obvious reason, other than that both education and religion were very highly valued.

I stayed true to the education part of that.

Being in the military is very common in my family (on my mother’s side as well as my father’s side), but no specific career within the military.
I have a few relatives who are cops or firefighters.

All the males and me have been in business for ourselves. We all like to be generals.

On my moms side nursing is very common. My moms sister and mother were both nurses. The other sister worked in a nursing home so that is kinda like a nurse.

My dad side is all engineers. My grandpa was a mechanical engineer. His three sons all went into engineering. My dad was a mechanical engineer along with one of his brothers, and the other one went in electrical engineering.

And Holy Shit, I just realized that my mom only had sisters, and my dad only had brothers. Both had two of each. And my parents had two kids. One boy and one girl.

My dad comes from a long line of Navy folk. In fact, my brother is the first male for generations not to join the forces.

In my immediate family, we have all had some kind of career in sport. My mum was also in the Navy that’s how she and my dad met before then she was a British champion gymnast and after she had various jobs teaching/instructing sport. My dad has worked as an umpire, referee and tournament manager in Tennis for years. He umpired at Wimbledon for many years. My brother was a footballer and personal trainer for a while before deciding that he actually wanted to be an electrician! I work in a sports centre which is attached to a university. I am not sporty myself but I started working on reception and now I work in the office booking kids clubs and camps.

Part time dog training is also a common theme in the family.

Most of them are doctors.
So i went to Journalism. :)

Medicine and eyes, with dashes of law and art.

I don’t know why but I love the sound of ‘dashes’.

My family of origin produced nothing but lawyers for four generations (if you only count the men) and nothing but well-read ladies, plus one plucky society portrait artist (if you only count the women).
My husband’s family was all laborers and factory workers, married to women who never left the house except to do church work.

My brother scrabbles along in an iffy branch of the movie business. I’m an artist, teacher, psychologist, like my husband was. So are my sons.

The sixties changed our family histories – you could imagine doing something that no one expected, and therefore, we did.

Up until my grandfather, many of my ancestors on my fathers’ side were fishermen. Nowadays, there is an artistic streak in the family. We have, or had, a sign-writer, a professional photographer, an art teacher, a professional fine-artist (painter), two graphic designers and a lot of enthusiastic amateurs like myself. There is artistic talent on both sides of the family.

Im a carpenter. My dad is a carpenter. My grandpa is a retired carpenter. My cousins are carpenters. My uncles are carpenters. My family has built hundreds of houses, barns, restaurants, and other structures. I think building started in our family when my great grandfather and his brothers all farmed, built their own houses and barns, and then branched off into building other things in the community. Men in my family were always expected to work hard farming and building and help the other family members on each others farms or building projects. I missed out on the farming because it was no longer profitable by the time I was born.

@buster: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.

I forgot the family members who are photographers and visual artists.

Doctors. Because it’s one of the most challenging yet rewarding careers out there. And at any rate, even if we’re all doctors, we won’t end up in the same specialties so there’s room for variation.