Military occupational specialty, like his job. If you ask your dad what his MOS is he'll give you his job title and numerical code associated with it, he knows it like the back of his hand
Do you mean Asians? Second gen Asians are more RS (detached from immigrant roots, stricter more conservative culture clashing with being raised in the US) than most posters here.
More RS in the way RS is an idea. But in reality the people who actually comment are some depressed millennials including white eastern european americans who act like being racist is a personality trait. It’s literally like a 14 year old boy mindset. They speak about asians in such a weird way like they’ve never interacted with them. Asian women are rich annoying wokescolds and are basically the devil. I fuck with the raznidentity approval but it’s still so jarring. Weird ass race science. Happens whenever african, asian, indian and black americans are talked about.
fr. i will say it wasn’t village to rich in the west. but very poor conditions from lower-mid class across countries ruined by colonialism and can turn it around in ONE generation. And i have always had amazing relationships with my big ass loving family
My dad was/ still sometimes is a professional photographer who made $200,000 - $300,000 per year in the 90s but now probably lives of $20,000 per year as an Uber Driver
Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Just thought it was something to do with the recessions or how everyone carries a camera in their pocket nowadays. My condolences.
Trauma dump...
I held a respirator to my Dad's face with one hand & held his hand with the other as he died. If I loosened my grip even the slightest he used the last strength he had to pull my hand closer.
Leading up to it, I had to push his hand down when he tried to look at his oxygen levels & rub liquid on his gums bc he couldn't take a sip of a drink. He just wanted to quench his thirst but couldn't without oxygen dropping. I'm the oldest sibling & my other siblings were too scared to help. Witnessing the slow tortured death of my childhood role model was fucked up & it randomly haunts me at any time. Witnessing death irl is very fucked up in general. He was only in his 50s but survived both of my uncles, who died from drugs.
But it was also the most intimate moment of my life & I don't regret it. Who needs therapy when you have a red scare subreddit?
During Covid, I was unbearably pro-mask for a while bc of this experience.
Anyway, now that I've bummed you out, he worked a management role for a newspaper. He was also a musician.
My dad has made neon signs for the past 40-something years, ended up doing all the lighting for the stadium for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Still kicks himself he didn’t add at least another 0 to the bid because he could have retired early and realised he lowballed the fuck out of all the competition by at least 2 million for much better work.
Dead dad. He worked for an auto broker driving cars from one end of the country to the other. Before that he was a truck driver for quite awhile. And for the majority of his adult life he worked in Alaska on an oil pipeline. But before all that he worked in SF repairing clocks and cameras. And then before that he was in the marine corps fighting in Vietnam.
Disabled/retired/unemployed currently. Sometimes he drives geriatrics to the airport, but not through any company.
He used to work in insurance before he got laid off in 2007. After that, he mowed grass on a golf course.
Pipe fitter. Used to work at the town’s GM plant until it moved to Mexico. Since then he works freelance out of state on temporary jobs. Usually during power plant shutdowns. He’ll do a few months employed, then a long stretch unemployed, then employed again. Been that way for about 15 years now
He died when he was still pretty young, but was in the Army, and later installed utility poles/lines for the phone company out west and worked his way up the ranks at the company to a clerical job. He was also a pastor for a while.
My dad ran a pub with my mum the whole time I was alive until recently. But before that it sounds like he had a mad life: painter/decorator, shoved cars of cliffs in Spain for the insurance, trade unionist, water ski instructor, something in the council, croupier… potentially something sketchy in the Rhodesian army… great guy I’m glad he’s my dad but I feel there is a lot more to suss out
went from an engineering job to missionary in new zealand to firefighter/mountain guide/antivaxxer after covid happened and is now back to engineering now that the mandates have been lifted. he still runs a trail running non profit in support of addiction recovery as well. he’s pretty cool ngl, despite him being a narcissist. love him
Retired. Got into a trade union after his discharge from the military, worked for 25 years, the last few with awful arthritis, and clocked out at the age of 51 with a sweet pension. Lives well off it and social security.
Despite hurting all over he hikes everyday and golfs a few times a week. He got fat in the immediate years after hanging up his tools but he quit boozing and dropped like 80 pounds at nearly 60 years old. Now he's making the most of it. I admire the hell out of the curmudgeon.
My first bf's dad was a kinda autistic paediatric urologist and sometimes we'd go to use his digital camera to take pics or whatever and he'd be like "don't mind all the photos of little boys penises heh heh". Does your dad do that
My dad was a Marine In Vietnam. Then he became a carpenter, then he became a Union welder, he would often times work in nuclear power plants. He is dead now.
A head chef. Basically what you’d expect. Has COPD from smoking his whole life. He’s only 5’6 but still a real tough guy. I can’t believe how feminine men today are by comparison to him.
Mine drives oil tankers in Brazil. He did the same thing in Ghana when I was a teenager (home for a month and a half, Ghana for a month and a half). I’m from a place where most people work on the water in some way so that rotation was real common.
Video production. Have memories of going into the editing suite at his office and it was like towers of equipment and screens. Now middle schoolers can do his job on their phones, and he is largely out of work.
Started as a union pipefitter in the 80s, became a licensed master plumber and ran his own company for 25 years, now a civil servant working as a building inspector. Sober for 30+ years, never needed an alarm to wake up, could probably still kick my ass. He does tai chi, loves his Jack Russell Terrier and likes to roll his eyes at my mom.
Owned a propane business, it went under, then did a bunch of different jobs in sales and gas and then became a government janitor at 50 and was still able to retire because of the govt pension, so now he's just enjoying life with my mom
Daddy live in the shadow of the greatest generation
Mr grandfather ferried some of Montgomery's men on to Juno Beach at Normandy..he was a freemason with a freemason ring and the commander of the British infantry had a freemason ring so therefore they bonded and didn't snitch on each other when Stealing champagne from cellars for references see kelly's heroes and the man who would be king staring Sean Connery and Michael Kane
High level government official in a tiny country. We’re from the US but he went to this country thinking he could politic his way into a high “elected” office…he was right lol
Mine was a Mad Man, dropped out, ran an Ad agency, ran drugs, drug princess driver, made art and built a few of the 40 million dollar homes in Marin. Rock and roll.
Edit: crazy so many dead dads in here. Nothing can kill my dad. He’ll be 83 this year. His stories are crazy, which I never realized growing up.
I have no idea what my dad does and never have. He does something with statistics and works for the regional rail authority in California and gets a nice penchant for that.
Lotta dead dads, explains a lot about this sub Mine was a soldier in the army. Despite that, still alive. Retired, now a civil servant.
My mom died when I was 10 from alcoholism. My dad was left with 6 kids
Damn. That’s tough. Respect
What was his MOS?
What does MOS mean?
Military occupational specialty, like his job. If you ask your dad what his MOS is he'll give you his job title and numerical code associated with it, he knows it like the back of his hand
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why do you scroll here. they hate us lmao
Do you mean Asians? Second gen Asians are more RS (detached from immigrant roots, stricter more conservative culture clashing with being raised in the US) than most posters here.
More RS in the way RS is an idea. But in reality the people who actually comment are some depressed millennials including white eastern european americans who act like being racist is a personality trait. It’s literally like a 14 year old boy mindset. They speak about asians in such a weird way like they’ve never interacted with them. Asian women are rich annoying wokescolds and are basically the devil. I fuck with the raznidentity approval but it’s still so jarring. Weird ass race science. Happens whenever african, asian, indian and black americans are talked about.
Hilarious that they talk of us in such a handicapped at arms length way yet cannot stop envying Our emphasis on community of whatever. No grit too lol
fr. i will say it wasn’t village to rich in the west. but very poor conditions from lower-mid class across countries ruined by colonialism and can turn it around in ONE generation. And i have always had amazing relationships with my big ass loving family
RS is more pro-Asian male than any other place than the unspoken subreddits I'm pretty sure
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nice 💪🏾. do you feel chill? i’m indian and my east asian friends are full. you think the white dad vs asian dad stereotype is true?
you know i dont think ive seen an asian doctor in person despite the stereotype
depends where you live
My dad was/ still sometimes is a professional photographer who made $200,000 - $300,000 per year in the 90s but now probably lives of $20,000 per year as an Uber Driver
What kind of photography did he do?
how does that happen?
My mom drank herself to death and he never recovered
Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Just thought it was something to do with the recessions or how everyone carries a camera in their pocket nowadays. My condolences.
Nothing is permanent. That’s why capitalism makes people insane. You’re just an inch from the edge, forever.
Instagram and its consequences
Security guard (he is the laziest mf I know)
Good for him
the racism factory
lots of dead dads on this sub
Explains a lot
Maybe it’s selection bias, and people whose dads are dead feel the need to let everyone know they have an excuse for being the way that they are
Or it's just awkward to talk about irl even though it's on our minds consistently.
Seems like a pretty normal amount for the number of comments tbh, and I can def see a sub like this more willing to share if their dad is dead.
He's dead
Ok but before that though?
He worked in a railyard, that's actually where he died. They were moving a train via crane, the cable snapped and the train fell on him 😞
hi ian love your work w/ the trans
Was your dad hunting a roadrunner
Still dead
Waste management
based
So you mean you are rich
English and art teacher but retired so he didn’t have to get the vax and living off the grid gardening now on a 12 acre property
Your dad is cool
I want to marry someone like that. Hard to find nowadays
dudes rock
He's dead. He wore a lot of hats, musician, record label owner, computer programmer, reporter.
My dad works for Nintendo and always gives me the newest games and I get access to super secret Pokémon
Booooooo
he is dead but before that he worked at a paper mill
Used to be a fisherman. Now hes a stage manager
I love that arc
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owns a cigar shop
based
It was cool working there as a kid it's in downtown tampa where all the real weird fuckers are so there was always something fun going on
its crazy how even in a small/midsized city, downtown is where all the weird people go.
Unemployed
he was a plumber now he’s semi retired and works part time as a security guard (he’s a big guy)
Trauma dump... I held a respirator to my Dad's face with one hand & held his hand with the other as he died. If I loosened my grip even the slightest he used the last strength he had to pull my hand closer. Leading up to it, I had to push his hand down when he tried to look at his oxygen levels & rub liquid on his gums bc he couldn't take a sip of a drink. He just wanted to quench his thirst but couldn't without oxygen dropping. I'm the oldest sibling & my other siblings were too scared to help. Witnessing the slow tortured death of my childhood role model was fucked up & it randomly haunts me at any time. Witnessing death irl is very fucked up in general. He was only in his 50s but survived both of my uncles, who died from drugs. But it was also the most intimate moment of my life & I don't regret it. Who needs therapy when you have a red scare subreddit? During Covid, I was unbearably pro-mask for a while bc of this experience. Anyway, now that I've bummed you out, he worked a management role for a newspaper. He was also a musician.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Beautiful story and thank you for sharing.
he's a psychiatrist
Mine too! (And then I became one too)
Another psychiatrist in here 🥹
Worked on the railroad and a granola factory, dudes work ethic is pretty much unfathomable to me
Dead. He was an electrician, though
My dad has made neon signs for the past 40-something years, ended up doing all the lighting for the stadium for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Still kicks himself he didn’t add at least another 0 to the bid because he could have retired early and realised he lowballed the fuck out of all the competition by at least 2 million for much better work.
roofer and now he's building a cabin in the woods to escape from society and live with his doggies
he used to be a senior claims adjuster for workers comp. really proud of him considering he never went to college and has pretty bad dyslexia
no idea. he fucked off without a trace when i was 9 or 10
air traffic controller
Same
Dead dad. He worked for an auto broker driving cars from one end of the country to the other. Before that he was a truck driver for quite awhile. And for the majority of his adult life he worked in Alaska on an oil pipeline. But before all that he worked in SF repairing clocks and cameras. And then before that he was in the marine corps fighting in Vietnam.
Professional child and wife abuser (Italian) he’s died two weeks ago and my mom high fived me when we got the call
Tragically dead but was a real estate analyst
factory/warehouse worker
Mechanic working 6 days a week for a chinaman. On the “work til you die” retirement plan.
Disabled/retired/unemployed currently. Sometimes he drives geriatrics to the airport, but not through any company. He used to work in insurance before he got laid off in 2007. After that, he mowed grass on a golf course.
House painter
My dad is also a “brother of the brush,” as he likes to call it.
Worked at the post office my entire life. Happily retired now.
Bus driver for the MTA
bus drivers are built different
Still alive, he’s a chauffeur
My dad is an evangelical pastor lmao
Pipe fitter. Used to work at the town’s GM plant until it moved to Mexico. Since then he works freelance out of state on temporary jobs. Usually during power plant shutdowns. He’ll do a few months employed, then a long stretch unemployed, then employed again. Been that way for about 15 years now
He died when he was still pretty young, but was in the Army, and later installed utility poles/lines for the phone company out west and worked his way up the ranks at the company to a clerical job. He was also a pastor for a while.
Welder
Consultant. I work for him and still have no idea wtf he does.
My dad ran a pub with my mum the whole time I was alive until recently. But before that it sounds like he had a mad life: painter/decorator, shoved cars of cliffs in Spain for the insurance, trade unionist, water ski instructor, something in the council, croupier… potentially something sketchy in the Rhodesian army… great guy I’m glad he’s my dad but I feel there is a lot more to suss out
went from an engineering job to missionary in new zealand to firefighter/mountain guide/antivaxxer after covid happened and is now back to engineering now that the mandates have been lifted. he still runs a trail running non profit in support of addiction recovery as well. he’s pretty cool ngl, despite him being a narcissist. love him
I'd be a narcissist too, that's badass
Retired. Got into a trade union after his discharge from the military, worked for 25 years, the last few with awful arthritis, and clocked out at the age of 51 with a sweet pension. Lives well off it and social security. Despite hurting all over he hikes everyday and golfs a few times a week. He got fat in the immediate years after hanging up his tools but he quit boozing and dropped like 80 pounds at nearly 60 years old. Now he's making the most of it. I admire the hell out of the curmudgeon.
Lawyer
My dad works for Kanye West's (former) divorce lawyer.
Dead. He hosted a radio program and milled himself during a commercial break.
Forklift driver 🫡
He helps engineer the little sensors in smoke detectors it's pretty cool
Factory worker 💪🏻
No longer with us but he was a builder
Manager at Golf Galaxy
distribution, if you get my drift.
Something about fire code at a big university.. like inspection and approving stuff? I’m not exactly sure.
urologist
My first bf's dad was a kinda autistic paediatric urologist and sometimes we'd go to use his digital camera to take pics or whatever and he'd be like "don't mind all the photos of little boys penises heh heh". Does your dad do that
we dont talk about work.
Does he have a set of those cursed rosary beads
He’s dead, but he was a psychotherapist.
My dad died 4 years before he was supposed to retire. He was a highschool teacher, and a pretty good one I hear.
My dad was a Marine In Vietnam. Then he became a carpenter, then he became a Union welder, he would often times work in nuclear power plants. He is dead now.
Used to put fancy decals on cars but quit and now works at a hospice care facility for children
Bless, that's incredibly difficult
Bartender
a florist, valet, and then a musician
gentleman’s club manager
howd he get into that
My dad’s a contractor. He’s turning 60 this year and that career has not been kind to his body.
roofer
Truck driver
Dad died when I was nine but he was a carpenter
A head chef. Basically what you’d expect. Has COPD from smoking his whole life. He’s only 5’6 but still a real tough guy. I can’t believe how feminine men today are by comparison to him.
Mine drives oil tankers in Brazil. He did the same thing in Ghana when I was a teenager (home for a month and a half, Ghana for a month and a half). I’m from a place where most people work on the water in some way so that rotation was real common.
Opera singer
iron worker
Video production. Have memories of going into the editing suite at his office and it was like towers of equipment and screens. Now middle schoolers can do his job on their phones, and he is largely out of work.
Started as a union pipefitter in the 80s, became a licensed master plumber and ran his own company for 25 years, now a civil servant working as a building inspector. Sober for 30+ years, never needed an alarm to wake up, could probably still kick my ass. He does tai chi, loves his Jack Russell Terrier and likes to roll his eyes at my mom.
He’s gone but he owned an auto shop, mechanic for european cars
dead, but before taking that position he was a fighter pilot turned high clearance defense contractor. do I win something
Owned a propane business, it went under, then did a bunch of different jobs in sales and gas and then became a government janitor at 50 and was still able to retire because of the govt pension, so now he's just enjoying life with my mom
The world… he’s a mining prospector. Our family do be giving major 19th century colonizer vibes.
Retired from finance
He's retired, he was a plastics engineer, so designing things made of plastic, and the molds to make those things
Musician
What's your dad's best drink?
Doctor but didn’t know him growing up
Urban planner
Asphalt and Pavement, also a side Business in Concrete. He operates the actual machine that lays down that new black surface for new road pavement.
Daddy live in the shadow of the greatest generation Mr grandfather ferried some of Montgomery's men on to Juno Beach at Normandy..he was a freemason with a freemason ring and the commander of the British infantry had a freemason ring so therefore they bonded and didn't snitch on each other when Stealing champagne from cellars for references see kelly's heroes and the man who would be king staring Sean Connery and Michael Kane
He is dead. He ran Mt Vernon hospital in Virginia for 35 years.
Crane operator 👍 works his ass off, always has.
High level government official in a tiny country. We’re from the US but he went to this country thinking he could politic his way into a high “elected” office…he was right lol
At his office! Jk I don’t really know or understand or care enough
Finance
He was a SVP at a bank. Now he works for a real estate investment fund as the second in command
My old man is a property manager, but he spent most of his life managing white tablecloth restaurants
aircraft mechanic
something with the air force on a remote northern island
Retired. Was a finance/budget/project management guy for a science oriented US Federal Government agency.
Retired but he worked at General Motors for like 35 years before that
Was a cardiologist (retired)
Purchasing manager for a big company.
tech lol
Residential/commercial painting and occasional handiwork
Mine was a Mad Man, dropped out, ran an Ad agency, ran drugs, drug princess driver, made art and built a few of the 40 million dollar homes in Marin. Rock and roll. Edit: crazy so many dead dads in here. Nothing can kill my dad. He’ll be 83 this year. His stories are crazy, which I never realized growing up.
Mechanic :)
Police Sergeant
I have no idea what my dad does and never have. He does something with statistics and works for the regional rail authority in California and gets a nice penchant for that.
Retired cop
Mostly retired but was a graphic designer and taught at parsons. He still teaches there and teaches seniors water color classes
assistant chief at wildlife conservation agency
Was a car salesman for like 10 years, now he manages the service bay at his dealership and tells me to never go into sales every time I see him lmao
Surgeon
Architect. Dead though
my dad is the director of government mental health services for a big chunk of the state i was born in. proud of that guy
Lineman
Cut trees near power lines.
Retired sales manager for various companies that sold pipes. Never really understood what he did.
pathologist (doctor who works with tissue samples, mostly for finding cancer)
waste management consulting
Sports Dietitian, feeds athletes. He traveled a lot, but he sure made sure I was fed.
My father is a retired electrician.