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Question: Where your parents engineers
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Asked by anon-73804 on 23 Apr 2020.
- Will Smith answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  Yes, my dad was an engineer too.
- Sophie Louth answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  My parents are not engineers although I think they think like engineers in that they like to problem solve. However one of my grandfathers was an engineer
- Rhys Edwards answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  Neither my parents or anyone in my immediate family were engineers. My dad was an accountant before retiring and my mum worked part time in a supermarket.
- Diana Mathew answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  Yes, my dad is.
- Katie Sparks answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  No, my parents (and uncle and grandparents) all left school at or before 16 and worked in the family business.
  I’m the first (but not the last) to do A levels and go to uni. I picked my topics not knowing what I may do with them, but just that I enjoyed them or seemed a good idea. For example, I really enjoyed all science, and maths is ok, but I knew it was useful to make sense of a lot of science, so I kept that at A level too.
- Claire Brockett answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  Yes, my Dad did an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering after school. I think I get my problem-solving skills from him!
- Douglas Wragg answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  No, neither of them.
- Alistair McConnell answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  My father, grandfather and great grandfather worked as mechanical engineers in the Navy, my mother not an engineer but knew how to strip down and fix our car.
- Louise France answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  My Dad was an engineer, but I never knew him when he had that job (he died when I was little). My step-dad is also into engines and figuring out how things work. It’s safe to say I’ve grown up in an environment where I was allowed to take things apart and figure out how they work without getting into too much trouble. Science was always part of my childhood.
- Reshma Vora answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  My Dad is, and although my mum isn’t her whole family were engineers. and yes it definitely did have an impact on my choice of study, it was almost a given that I would be an engineer too.
- Elizabeth Kapasa answered on 23 Apr 2020:
  
  Neither of my parents did engineering or science at all!
- Jeni Spragg answered on 24 Apr 2020:
  
  No, both my parents were nurses originally.
  I’m from a big family with lots of aunties/uncles and cousins, and I’m the only engineer! Many of them are in caring professions, such as teaching, nursing, or charities, but I like to think some parts of engineering are not so different. I often have to explain complicated things to different people (like a teacher), and I am working in renewable energy because I want to make a difference. I don’t think I would have made a very good nurse, but I can use my skills to help in a different way.
- Craig Leff answered on 29 Apr 2020: last edited 29 Apr 2020 12:24 pm
  
  My father had degrees in both mechanical and aeronautical engineering and worked on aerospace projects.
  
  My grandfather (on my mother’s side) was an engineer and worked for many years in the automotive industry.

Comments

Conrad commented on 24 Apr 2020:

Both parents (Dad was electrical and Mum was mechanical) and grandparents (one was an engineering lecturer and the other practiced at one point)
Juan Carlos commented on 24 Apr 2020:

Nop, they aren’t.

Question: Where your parents engineers