Quiz from New Jersey

We're spending the night with "our friends of the most years" and catching up on the careers of our combined nine children: the Ph.D. student, , the engineer, the architect, the screen-play writer, the soccer mom, the high-school assistant principal, the graphic artist, the soldier, the bike store manager. Here are there names -- can you match the name to the occupations: David x2, Karen, Virginia, Mary x2, Paul, Ann, John?