Day Jobs For Indie Musicians - Follow-up - Actual Examples

We thought we'd follow up yesterday's post about day jobs with a simple list of the best actual day jobs held by indie musicians.  I might as well start with myself:

Dave Ullrich - The Inbreds - Extra (Black Harbour tv show, Rankin Family video)
Carla Gillis - Plumtree/Bells Clanging - Ice Cream Scooper
Olivier Jarda - solo/Turnstiles - Rhodes Scholar
Chris Murphy/Matt Murphy - Sloan/The Super Friendz - Hospital Porter
Shane Nelken - The Awkward Stage - Mortician
Mike O'Neill - The Inbreds - Budget Rent-A-Car
Andrew Scott - Wooden Stars - Software Developer
Joel Plaskett/Charles Austin - Thrush Hermit/Super Friendz - CBC Archivists
Josh Lindstrom - Precious Fathers - Cremationist
Mark Gaudet - Eric's Trip/Elevator - Record Store (Sam The Record Man)
Beck - Beck - Leaf Blower
Jenny Pierce - Jale - Nanny
Tim Vesely - The Violet Archers/Rheostatics - Newspaper Delivery
Mike Eggermont - Chixdiggit - co-founder of e-learning solutions company
Jill Barber - solo - Accounts Receivable manager at a weekly newspaper
Dion Willis - The Salteens - Sales for a greeting card company
Ryan Myshrall - Local Rabbits - Multilingual phone support

Please feel free to add your favourite artist's day jobs right here.  Let's hear it!

- Dave Ullrich

Comments

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I think the best job ever for a musician was held by Jesca Hoop. She was a nanny for Tom Waits.