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Are you a first born or the baby of the family? Maybe the middle child? What do you do or did you do to earn a living? Or are you an only child?

Myself I was the second born, first born daughter and raised as an only child until I was 6 by another family.

I was in the banking industry for the bulk of my working years.

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After we get some input I will come back and discuss further. I think you will find this interesting.

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Don't know how to answer your poll, Esther. I'm number three out of eight.

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I was second-born, first born daughter of eleven siblings. Ten remain, the youngest now
51 yrs and the oldest 71 yrs. I just turned 70 yrs a week ago yesterday.

Falla39

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I'm a baby! :bigbaby (But you all knew that. :toofunny)

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After a stint in the Navy i worked in a large UAW factory for 15 years. Then I sold GM cars for 15 years.

For the last 8 to 10 years I have been on staff part time at our church while also running a small maintenance company doing mainly work on empty apartment buildings. About year and half ago I added power wheelchair delivery and service work to the list of part time things I do now.

I love to fish and explore the MN/Canadian border lakes and starting next year I'll be taking the month of July off from the above duties and managing a resort on the Canadian border.

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I am a first born, married to a first born, of course our oldest child is a first born, so we have only one baby in our family... makes for an interesting situation.

I was a foster child for a while, which mixes things up a bit.

I have been a teacher, massage therapist, and I am currently in school for communication.

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Not sure how to vote here. I am my Dad's firstborn, but my Mom's middle child. My two older sisters left home at an early age, so I was raised as oldest.

I worked as an EMT until I got pregnant with my son, so now I am a stay at home Mom. I am thinking about starting school next fall, but I am not sure what I want to do.

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I was the baby to my parents, born late in their lives. They always told me they were so glad I came along! :D

I had 3 older sisters 19, 16 and 10 years older and 1 brother 14 years older.

I have been a full time homemaker for most of my married life, but I have worked a few jobs here and there. Some of which were/are waitress, cook's aide, daycare, sewing, typist, and book keeping.

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How do you answer if you're your own grandpa? ;)

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I am the oldest of 5. Also the oldest grandchild on my mother's side of the family. My sister didn't come along until I was 3 years old. Then I was 5 when we added my brother, 6 when we added my second brother and 7 1/2 when my youngest sister came along. For the first 5 years, my sister and I were the only grandchildren.

My situation is a little bit different tho in that I have aunts and uncle who are only 10, 11 and 12 years older than me. And because we lived next door to my grandparents, and I was always "Grandma's baby girl", I almost feel like I could have been the baby of my grandparents family. Know what I mean?

I have done daycare in my home for the last 24 years. I chose to do that because it was important to us from the very beginning that I stay at home to raise our children. We did not want someone else raising our kids. Just a personal thing, I guess. OR it could be because my dad was adamant about my mom NEVER working - he wanted to be the provider and he wanted her to be home to raise the kids. I guess you live what you learned :)

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I'm the oldest.

I've worked a lot of customer service. But, I'm a teacher. Plain and simple. I'm currently in school so I can teach and get paid for it too. :)

I was a stay at home mom from the time my oldest was born until I went back to school when he was 8.

Since then, I've been in school and worked a variety of jobs on campus (tutor, library assistant) and customer service work (fast food, Walmart for awhile).

When I graduate, I'll teach highschool history. Unless I go directly into a graduate program and work an internship on a college campus instead. My eventual goal is to teach at a college level. It's entirely likely I'll end up with a PhD in history, and at least a few degrees in math as well. :) Math is the love of my life and teaching it makes me very, very happy. It'd take me a year and a half longer to get a BS in math than it will take me to get a BA in history though. I have to support these kids, and fast food isn't cutting it.

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Forgot to answer the question on occupation - Insurance, legal and my preferred - sales.

:thumbsup LOL!

:ursofunny :ursofunny :ursofunny

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I'm the oldest of 7, but was only raised with my oldest brother. The other five lived with my dad and his wife.

My mom demanded a lot more out of me than my brother, who is just 2 1/2 yrs younger than I. And today, our lives show how detrimental that was to him.

I'm a nurse, but have worked since I was 15, even though I didn't get my degree until last year. However, my brother, although he owns his own construction company (and has for about 10 years) constantly struggles with money and only lived on his own (albeit with the help of his in-laws) while married for about 7 years.

I've lived on my own for over 15 years, but when I lived at home as an adult, I paid rent and bought my own food and supplies. My brother never did that. Still doesn't...LOL!

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My little brother is 18 years old, and my niece is 16. It looks funny when you see her calling him uncle.

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my dad had 3 nieces when he was born. And 2 more born the same year as him. You're right. It was funny when we used to hear them calling him uncle (my dad is deceased :( ) But those were on my dad's side of the family. On his side, there are over 70 grandkids, 90+ great grandkids and I've lost count of how many great-greats. I fall towards the end of the 70 grands (which makes sense since my dad was the youngest of 9 kids)

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First born of two. Dad was a middle child and mom was first born.

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My ex-husband has a niece older than him and a nephew a couple months younger.

My youngest brother was 5 when my son was born. He cried when we told him he was an uncle. He said he wasn't old enough. LOL!

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This is one reason we never used "uncle" or "aunt" when talking to our uncles and aunts. Just used their first names.

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I'm the youngest and a Registered Nurse.

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Typical middle child. :bigbaby

Married to a pastor; I've worked in ministry along side him for the past 21 years full time. Before that I held a few office jobs, just to make ends meet.

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Born the 4th child of 5... baby girl, first born of my parents second family in late life... so I have a lot of oldest child but also baby traits.

Three older sisters (ten year span) Me and younger brother.

Homemaker for 14 years and now a collections Representative.

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That is the way my brother and my niece was... barely two years apart. My niece went on every vacation and every where with us. I was the oldest of us three and my niece is more like a younger sister. She is the only child of my oldest sister.

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That would make you middle born. Your not the oldest or the youngest.

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What is your birth order?

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I am the youngest (of all the siblings and grandkids in my generation on both sides) I am a Project Engineer, my degree is in Chemical Engineering.

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I am the youngest of three. There are 5 years difference between my sister and 7 years between my brother.
I was a teacher, elementary principal and supervisor until I retired. My Dad is an only child and my mom was a middle child of eight.

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The middle child tends to be a peace maker so that would be very helpful being a minister's wife.

Some tend to not communicate much and hold things in, I doubt this is an issue with you.

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There is probably enough of a gap between your siblings that you function somewhat as a first born as well as the baby of the family.

The baby tends to be the entertainer of the family.

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Is there a signficant age difference? And are you the same gender as your other siblings?

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Are the two ahead of you a different gender that you?

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Two questions, when you were a foster child what age was you? And second, were there other children in your foster home?

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It is very typical of parents being harder on the first born, which is probably why most have very responsible positions. They are also by nature usually the natural leader in a group.

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I am in the middle. I, like most of my siblings, am a self employed small business owner.

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No, they are girls. All girls except for number 8 being the only boy.

When my father passed away we had to sit according to age, at the funeral, so that everyone would know who was who. LOL!

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It's a shame that nobody would have picked out your brother had he been sitting in the wrong place!! LOL!

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:toofunny

I didn't think about him. Everyone usually focuses on us girls. LOL!

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:ursofunny:ursofunny:ursofunny

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Were your parents also self employed?

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Its 4 years between me and my sister directly over me, then there is a 12 year gap. The older 3 are all 2 1/2 years apart. Its all girls and one boy. The boy is the 2nd oldest.

So there is significant age difference between me and the oldest (~20 years), but not me and the sib closest to me.