Jobs of your ancestors

My great grandfather Carr was a carpenter who built barns the old fashioned way: dowels. Most of those barns still stand today.

Granddad was a machinist by trade. Got his education through corrospendence school. Moved the family to the Tampa area with gas rations bought on the black market during WWII. He couldn't fight, he was 4F with a double hernia.

Momma's dad was a tobacco farmer in Kentucky before moving the family to Florida in the '50's. Then he did Whatever.

Pop spent 25 years driving truck. Three million miles on the wheel of a tractor trailer. Before that he worked for the town DOT as a mechanic while owning our pig farm. Before that he owned a scrapyard and did dozer work. Before that he was a commercial fisherman who owned his own boat in the Gulf of Mexico, harbored in Tampa. Before that he was a tree trimmer. Before that he was a mechanic and body man. Somewhere in all that he found the time to co-own our restoration shop.