Did any of you follow in your parents footsteps as far as career/trade goes?

Nope. My dad was a chicken farmer, sold his land, went to college and then wore a 3 piece suit for the rest of his working life. My mom never worked outside of the house. She was a happy go lucky stay at home mom.

I went to college and never worked in my field. I did my first love, construction, for most of my working life.

I don't know if this counts. I didn't but my brother did. My Dad was a truck driver all his life. My brother followed in his footsteps and retired doing the same thing. My Mom was a waitress. I never was a waitress.

No. My father worked at a steel mill that made wheels for trains. When I worked part time after school I worked at a factory that made hickory handles for axes, sledge hammers and splitting mauls. When I graduated high school,  I got a full time job with a construction company and have been in that field ever since.

Nope

Not sure what mine did, but I know it wasn't at the telephone company. My whole working career( 321/2) was there.

We all ended up in different sectors of the medical field.

Sort of.  My mom was one of the first female officers at Bank of America.  I always knew I'd be in some kind of business administration.  My late brother followed our grandpa who was once Chief of Police in Indio, then a railroad detective.  My brother was a Los Angeles Police sargent.

No. My dad had many jobs. Mechanic, truck driver (both for a company and as an independent) and had several small businesses. He is ADHD so you can imagine the job changes. I did briefly try to work sales for a company my dad worked for but that didn't work out. Other than that I did nothing else he did.

My mom worked in a factory. She started on the assembly line but eventually ended up on the prototype lab. I did work there for a little bit as well, but got laid off.

I went into retail after that, then into banking. Finally I worked at Social Security, but left that after my husband was recalled into the Army after 9/11. I have been a housewife since.

My mom and dad didn't have much of a future when I came along. I'm still trying to get mine started.

Nope. I thought about joining the Air Force like my father, but my sight wasn't 20/20 and I would have wanted to fly.

My mother had no career and didn't want one.

My father trained initially to work in the men's outfitting business.

Then Adolf Hitler intervened.

He spent the next 7 years in the army, fighting in North Africa and then up through Italy, finally staying on in Italy as part of the Army of occupation after the war.

Coming home, he was sacked from the job they promised to keep open for him, and ended up a travelling salesman, selling (mainly) neckware (ties, scarves etc.) but also other things (including crash helmets) that might help to earn a living.

I became in turn, a photographer, a colour technician (in the printing business) a software engineer and systems architect. I did  a lot of other stuff along the way. Two more different career paths you could not imagine.