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| at Cockbuster with my boy, Dmitri, at age 19, pulling my pants up ridiculously high, and letting it fly! |
Homer: Yes, son. You can have an electric guitar just like your old man!
Bart: Dad, I'm asking if I can get a job.
Homer: Gig, son. When you're a musician, a job is called a gig.
From The Simpsons “Bart Gets Famous”
For most of my adult life, I have preferred to call a job a “gig” à la Homer J. Simpson. Maybe it’s because I treated many of them like gigs.
Counting my current job, I’ve had 30 different jobs since I started working when I was fourteen years old. This total includes gigs that lasted a month, but it doesn’t include ones that lasted a day (a canvasser for Clean Water Action) or a week or two (a door-to-door salesman when I was kid).
I’ve learned a lot from all these jobs. I figured it’d be interesting to catalog. So here’s what I learned:
