What was your first job? What was your favorite job?

The nature of work has changed so much just in the past 20 years. Let alone the past 60! Asking this question about grandparents’ jobs is definitely like stepping into a time machine. (As an aside, did you know that before alarm clocks, there was a job called a “knocker-upper”? You paid a person to knock on your window at the hour you specified. Crazy!

Source: The Legacy Project’s phenomenal and very complete questionnaire for interviewing grandparents.

Have you asked this question? How did it go? Do you have advice for how best to ask it? PLEASE RATE! AND WRITE A REVIEW (in the comment box below)!

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