Whoa! That's a biggie but just means that your name matches your career. Here's one which ties property with the guy's career: Ipswich Sinkhole & the consultant/expert who was interviewed by the ABC (earlier today). David Cliff was looking into the sinkhole situation - lets hope that he was standing well back from the edge.
Given the history of many names being given based on vocation and the fact that people passed on their skills to their children ... there most likely was a baker in the Baker family. Of course, hundreds of years later, having one of the Baker family decide to become a baker is probably due more to opportunity and circumstance than any nominative influence (otherwise, why weren't all the Bakers before them bakers too?). Indeed I would suggest that the opposite is more likely to be true - anyone named Baker who considers becoming a baker knows they will be in for a lifetime of ribbing and bad jokes and would tend to naturally be inclined to find other professions. That being said, I believe my family name Hampel is derived from the German word hampelmann, which directly translates into "jumping jack", a type of puppet - you pull the string at the bottom and the legs pop up like it's doing a jumping jack. So given my job is to manage an army of sock puppets, I think that's quite apt
A/Prof Eric Chung is the local guru for inserting penile prostheses for erectile problems. Another urologist is a Winkle, anaesthetist Pain... list goes on.
Actually, I was wondering about that. Was the decision to raise garlic at least in part to do with the name?
