# Following in (grand)father's shoes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-in-grand-fathers-shoes/73438 "2001-07-22T12:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-in-grand-fathers-shoes/73438/1 "2001-07-22T12:40:40Z")
A corollary to aenea’s very interesting thread [What did your grandfather do?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=35071) How many amongst the dopers are in the same vocation as their grandfather/mother? I don’t meet the criteria but my younger brother is a grazier in the same manner as his father, grandfather and greatgrandfather. ---
**Author:** ![City\_Gent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@City\_Gent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/City_Gent)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-in-grand-fathers-shoes/73438/2 "2001-07-23T05:51:06Z")
Firstly, what is a grazier? Secondly, my mom’s father was a machinist and my dad’s father was a coal miner. I’m a rocket engineer. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-in-grand-fathers-shoes/73438/3 "2001-07-23T06:13:57Z")
A grazier is a farmer who specialises in farming animals that graze. In woolly’s family’s case, I’d guess sheep. What would you 'merkins call it? ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-in-grand-fathers-shoes/73438/4 "2001-07-23T06:41:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by picmr \* > \*\*A grazier is a farmer who specialises in farming animals that graze. In woolly’s family’s case, I’d guess sheep. What would you 'merkins call it? \*\* We’d call it a rancher. I am a teacher, one of my grandmothers was a teacher before she married and became a wife and mother. ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-in-grand-fathers-shoes/73438/5 "2001-07-23T10:32:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by City Gent \* > **Firstly, what is a grazier?** Grazier (or pastoralist) in the Australian context, usually raises sheep to produce wool on medium to large properties termed stations or runs. A sheep farmer isn’t quite right. IIRC, the US sheep industry is mainly for meat production and done on a small scale. In the 1930’s my grandfather owned or leased almost 750,000 acres. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-in-grand-fathers-shoes/73438/6 "2001-07-23T11:27:03Z")
Well, one of my grandfathers was a plumber, fixing pipes. I do dedicated tech support for an ISP, fixing ‘pipes’ in a way…and my other grandfather was a teacher, and I teach people stuff all the time. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-in-grand-fathers-shoes/73438/7 "2001-07-23T13:48:52Z")
One of my grandfathers wanted to be a neurologist. He ended with a Ph.D. in biology, teaching neuroanatomy. So, his field was related to sciences, same as my intended field, animal sciences and veterinary medicine.