What did your folks do?
I'm enjoying the jobs threads, so here's another one.
What did your folks do when you were growing up?
My dad had an awful job. He worked, his entire life, in disaster restoration - cleaning up floods and fires primarily (or managing teams that did that), but also other horrible things such as homes with hording/pet issues, places where someone had died, etc.
Just awful work. When I was a teen I helped out a few times, and you are just digging through wet, dirty, and awful muck. I don't know how he did it for decades, except that his mindset was one of a provider. And that was how he did that for his family.
The only benefit was access to salvage - when people had big floods or fires, typically everything is replaced, and the rest goes to salavage where it is cleaned up, and the smells are removed. So over the years, we got our hands on cool stuff like a fooz-ball table, pachinko machine, dining room set, etc. I learned not to ask too many questions about where it came from - as one time my dad came home and asked me if I wanted a new ghetto blaster. Sure. He then told me he would just need a few days to get the "brains out". It has been recovered from some place where a guy had taken his own life.
My mom worked at the cash office at the Bay in Deerfoot Mall. Not much more to say about that.
How about you?
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