Do you work in a factory or have you ever worked in a factory?
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Do you work in a factory or have you ever worked in a factory? What about your parents?
By working in a factory I mean line work or cleaning, not management. And by factory I mean an operation manufacturing large runs of product, more than could be used in your home town.
For you, your parents and grand parents working in a factory only check the box if it was one of the main jobs they had for a significant time. Eg. not a "summer job."
Check all that apply.
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Do you work in a factory or have you ever worked in a factory? What about your parents?
By working in a factory I mean line work or cleaning, not management. And by factory I mean an operation manufacturing large runs of product, more than could be used in your home town.
For you, your parents and grand parents working in a factory only check the box if it was one of the main jobs they had for a significant time. Eg. not a "summer job."
Check all that apply.
@futurebird
I did work in a TV factory as my 2nd job, but it was as a junior software engineer, so neither proper factory work nor management. Parents were the first in my family to go to university, so I'd answer chemistry lab for both of them, and going further back, plumber/builder and furniture shop assistant, so I think my recent ancestors sort of avoided manufacturing somehow. -
Do you work in a factory or have you ever worked in a factory? What about your parents?
By working in a factory I mean line work or cleaning, not management. And by factory I mean an operation manufacturing large runs of product, more than could be used in your home town.
For you, your parents and grand parents working in a factory only check the box if it was one of the main jobs they had for a significant time. Eg. not a "summer job."
Check all that apply.
@futurebird I'm the downwardly mobile generation of my family. Multiple generations of my family have worked white collar jobs in manufacturing: R&D, designing manufacturing equipment, etc. I'm the only one that did assembly work & shipped product. The manufacturing job went away; I'd characterize the rest of my career as service industry, primarily in support of R&D.
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@futurebird
I did work in a TV factory as my 2nd job, but it was as a junior software engineer, so neither proper factory work nor management. Parents were the first in my family to go to university, so I'd answer chemistry lab for both of them, and going further back, plumber/builder and furniture shop assistant, so I think my recent ancestors sort of avoided manufacturing somehow.My dad was a chemist too, he worked a night shift in the steel mill to pay for college.
But the mill also helped him get some lab experience since part time he got to work in their lab ... where he discovered he didn't want to be a metallurgist which was his initial idea. He stuck with college longer to get a more serious degree because "metallurgy is boring" ? He's never really explained this I ought to ask him about it more.
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Do you work in a factory or have you ever worked in a factory? What about your parents?
By working in a factory I mean line work or cleaning, not management. And by factory I mean an operation manufacturing large runs of product, more than could be used in your home town.
For you, your parents and grand parents working in a factory only check the box if it was one of the main jobs they had for a significant time. Eg. not a "summer job."
Check all that apply.
@futurebird My maternal grandmother worked in a factory that wove cotton cloth. That was in Scotland, before she came to the US. Not sure how long, but she talked about it so obviously long enough to leave an impression.
Paternal grandfather learned to be a shoemaker in Sweden. When he came to the US he had difficulty finding work that wasn't mass production; he wanted to work as he'd learned, making a pair of shoes beginning to end. Eventually he found Spalding and made baseball shoes.
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Do you work in a factory or have you ever worked in a factory? What about your parents?
By working in a factory I mean line work or cleaning, not management. And by factory I mean an operation manufacturing large runs of product, more than could be used in your home town.
For you, your parents and grand parents working in a factory only check the box if it was one of the main jobs they had for a significant time. Eg. not a "summer job."
Check all that apply.
@futurebird in some ways, I miss assembly line work. Once I got used to the routine, I could follow it robotically and use the other 80% of my brain to think about something interesting.
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Do you work in a factory or have you ever worked in a factory? What about your parents?
By working in a factory I mean line work or cleaning, not management. And by factory I mean an operation manufacturing large runs of product, more than could be used in your home town.
For you, your parents and grand parents working in a factory only check the box if it was one of the main jobs they had for a significant time. Eg. not a "summer job."
Check all that apply.
@futurebird I selected "Other" as in "None of the above", but then I realized: Does farming count? Both of my parents grew up farming, and my grandparents all spent their career "manufacturing" (growing) grain and livestock to sell to food producers. I suppose it could be considered a type of outdoor factory.
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@futurebird I selected "Other" as in "None of the above", but then I realized: Does farming count? Both of my parents grew up farming, and my grandparents all spent their career "manufacturing" (growing) grain and livestock to sell to food producers. I suppose it could be considered a type of outdoor factory.
I think maybe later I'd ask about farming, although doing farm work fits in a similar economic role and has some of the same impacts.
