[Dion]

There was some interesting comments made in the previous jobs threads.
I thought we should start a thread seeing what people's grandparents did.

My fathers parents were born and raised in Ireland. Now my grandfather got his first job by fighting in WW1 and spending time in a German POW camp where he was tasked with taking care of the horses and livestock. He came home with his gun and a helmet he got in an exchange with a German officer.

After the war ended he married my grandmother and they got on a boat and emigrated to Canada landing in Nova Scotia. From there they headed west where they ended up buying a piece of land in Southern Manitoba just outside of the town of Elgin. They started a farm and ran it for most of their lives before selling it and going into retirement in nearby Souris.

My mother's grandparents were born and died in Estevan Saskatchewan. Now my grandmother was a nurse in the Estevan Hospital for all of her career. She was also a devout Christian who took into her home, people and families that were down on their luck. Both were there to help the less fortunate in any way they could and were well respected in the community.

Now my grandfather worked for Saskatchewan Power for all of his career and helped my mother get her first job there. He was also a huge ham radio enthusiast who spent many a nights in his basement talking to people all over the world. As a wee lad I got to share in some of those conversations that I thought was cool.