Unless you reach a certain level of fame and financial success, musicians must also work day jobs just to make ends meet. The gigs include bartending, working as a server, working for food delivery companies or rideshares, or some kind of office or retail job. Some teach music lessons. Others repair instruments.
But then we have someone like Oliver Ghoul, who has a full-time job as an emergency room psychologist at a hospital in Montreal. Michael Jordan, the drummer for Winnipeg’s Royal Canoe, manages a crew that makes skating on the Red and Assiniboine Rivers safe.
And then there’s the case of Scott Radinsky of Pulley, a skate-punk band from Southern California, who managed to open for bands like Green Day. His day job was relief pitcher for the Cleveland White Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the LA Dodgers, and the St. Louis Cardinals before becoming a bullpen coach.
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