Dad: Federal prison guard - moved up the ladder to run prison laundry / food services.
Mom: Temp office worker, then full time office worker, then grocery store checkout.
father: inventor
mother: banking
Dad: Degrees in Religion, Philosophy and History. Was an exec with a religious music and publishing co., Owned an import/export co. and involved developing DFW Airport and a Carribean island. Was president of a couple of banks and started the banking center at a respected university. Began doing economic forcasting and consulted for a number of banks, towns, universities, sports franchises and Fortune 500s. Although he’s somewhat retired now, the KFC/Pizza Hut/Taco Bell alliance of franchisers still relies on his direction heavily. He teaches a large Sunday School class, active with city government, lots of charitable work.
Yep, one heck of an amazing woman.
Dad – Regional sales representative for different metal companies specializing in stainless steel.
Mom – started out as a teacher, and has done lots of other things including vacuum cleaner sales, candy market researcher, owned a creative consulting business, wrote a human interest column for the Daily Herald, and currently is the administrator of a nursing home.
Stepdad – Commercial artist, art director, wine importer, illustrator for the Encyclopedia Brittanica, jazz drummer. Now he’s retired and does huge and wonderful drawings of Civil War generals.
Father: Ran a small appliance/general store. This is the truck he had when I was a kid.
Mother: Schoolteacher, though she didn’t start working until I was in college.
Dad - was in middle management for Illinois Bell until the divestiture. Then he went with American Bell for a bit, which didn’t last, then when offered a transfer or retirement, took retirement and became the Village Manager for the Village of Palos Park (a job that didn’t even exist prior to my dad making it happen. - he saw THAT Bell system debacle coming. :D)
Unfortunately, that job didn’t pay near as much as the middle management one, so my mom, who had been a SAHM, went back to work temping for Kelly. They put her with Peat Marwick - who then hired her. She did really really well and enjoyed going back into the work force. Now, she’s a widow and does volunteer work, and also is one of the “bigwigs” with Celebrate Recovery in Prescott, AZ (not paid or anything - she runs a big church program affiliated with them as well as some other stuff.)
Mom: banking, starting with teller and working her way up
Step-dad: police officer
Dad: maintenance mechanic in a fertilizer plant
Step-mom: clerk for the city
Dad: Presbyterian minister
Mom: SAHM for most of my young childhood, although being the minister’s wife is sort of like being the First Lady. There are jobs you are expected to do. After we got older she had jobs–running the school library and bookstore and doing some bookkeeping for the city they lived in after I went to college.
Mom, SAHM for the most part. She worked a couple of years for my dad as a receptionist, and before they married she was a geological draftsman.
Dad is a retired dentist.
Dad: Started working for an auto parts retailer in 1954, retired from the same company 45 years later. He often espoused how retail and business in general changed during his years there - management used to have a clue, but in the early 90’s they started hiring management with diplomas rather than business smarts (in his opinion). By the time he retired he was not happy working for them. Sadly, tomorrow is the one year anniversary of his death.
Mom: Worked retail until my older sis was born, stayed home until I was 7. She was an accountant for (A large city) Park Board, Board of Ed, City itself, then back to the Park Board before “be-tiring” as my grand niece calls it, around 5 years ago when Dad first became sick. Now she’s the primary babysitter for noted grand niece and the community outreach person for her church.
Dad: Farmer->WWII attack bomber pilot->construction equipment & truck driving->car salesman->Pontiac dealer->diesel truck & equipment dealer->retirement & current great-granddad and granddad to varous offspring’s offspring, etc.
Mom: In HR for Bethlehem Steel during WWII->SAHM->office mgr->SAHM->current great-grandma, etc.
Same here, except my parents met in residency. My dad’s retired now, my mom semi. She works two weekends a month.
My dad’s a pediatrician and my mom a neonatalogist.
Dad: Civil Engineer. Worked for the US State Dept for 40 years, traveling to 60 countries building roads, tunnels, bridges, etc.
Mom: She worked in my grandfather’s boot shop until she met my dad. Then, full-time housewife/mother.
Early on, Dad did a lot of things, including a stint with the WPA, working on the building of Lincoln Highway/Rt. 30. (Fighting Indians when necessary. 
) He also had a job in the office of the Rock Island Railroad for a while, but those things were way before my time.
I think most of Dad’s jobs included some kind of purchasing or minor management, but the only one I’m sure of was the last, the only one he had during my lifetime. Purchasing agent for a steel fabricating plant. They retired him. (MissTake, he would have agreed with your dad about degrees and experience.)
Mom: business college and was a secretary in several places, including the Navy (working for a photographer) until she married.
SAHM until my younger brother was in second grade.
School secretary at the junior high, then as the secretary to the director of the Special Ed. Co-op. She retired at 57 so she and Dad could spend some time doing some things they wanted while he was still able to do them.
Dad: retired mailman after a stint in the army.
Mom: started out as a teacher’s aide after going back to work when my brother started kindergarden then got her degree and became a teacher. Now retired due to disability.
Dad-- accountant
Mom-- worked in a factory that made airplane parts, did something secretarial for Motorola, did acrylic nails in a salon, sold lighting fixtures, sold carpet, worked for a hospital both as a secretary and a department supervisor, and is now in real estate but thinking about getting into something different. I think I missed a few!
At the end of his career, dad was a truck driver. Over his whole career he did lots of things. But mostly I remember him as a truck driver.
Mom is a bank teller.
I manage a software development team.
Dad: Boilermaker, Local 154 out of Pittsburgh, PA.
Mum: Very busy housewife, cat herder, rescuer of small birds, etc
Dad: Did lots of things. I remember steel mill worker, janitor at the high school, and the last job was sewage treatment plant supervisor. They also started a videography/photography business during that time that he mostly runs now since my mom still works during the day. So currently, he’s a stay-at-home husband + the business stuff. He probably does more babysitting of the grandkids, too.
Mom: SAHM --> day care center employee --> special ed. school teacher. That’s what she still does, plus their videography/photography stuff.
My mother has worn many hats. The earliest I can reliably remember is college student–one of my happiest childhood memories is of her whooping and screaming and crying and swinging me around the room when she got into medical school. She graduated from medical school when I was 11. She was in her residency all through junior high and high school, with a fellowship for my last year of high school. She wasn’t a full-fledged dermatopathologist until around the time I graduated from high school.
My stepfather is an adjunct professor at various community colleges. He teaches mostly freshman-level science courses.