I've always been creative. When I graduated high school, my family was not in a position to send me to an institute of higher learning, so I joined the American workforce and relegated my passions to my leisure time. I'm now 37 and I've worked many different jobs. I've been a lifeguard, pizza delivery guy, camp counselor, school bus driver, made refrigerator magnets, grew some weed, butcher, goat herder, lumberjack, insulation tech, US Navy deckhand, live sound guy, and burger flipper. Through it all, I've dreamt of being able to support myself in doing what I love. Have we ever asked ourselves why artists have to starve? If art comes from a place of suffering, why is Beyonce a billionaire?
But I digress...what are some of the craziest day jobs you've held?
When I google that, it shows me a brand of bidet. Is that accurate?
I've worked construction for a spell, I worked in the film industry in marketing, post-production and reality TV and recently, fashion.
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Oil and gas PA Asia/Europe, cleaner for Andalusian wild Lynx sanctuary just to get close to big cats, touring theatre actor.
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Craziest jobs? Test engineer for Lotus 51, driver for Lotus Formula B, driver for Alpha under 2L trans-am, USAC short track driver...those were the funnest and most wacky times of my life.
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Hi Albert, I can relate. I've been a prisoner guard, bartender, model, phone sales in a dodgy boiler room racket, DJ, surgical specialist exam organizer, worked in a pathology museum, kitchen, HR, and in a roof truss mill. Most didn't pay very well, but at least I'm rich in the coin of the spirit, as Kinky Friedman says.
If you haven't seen "Truth Seekers", check it out. It features a great character named Elton whose eclectic work history becomes integral to the story.