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Before the fame arrived, what did performers do to make ends meet?
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 94 Former Career entries on the site.
Name & Band | Former Career | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Dashboard Confessional, Chris Carrabba | he was a special education teacher | - Optimus Lime | ||
| 48may, CaptainHook | Head Engineer at York Street Studio in Auckland | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Elemeno P, Scotty Pearson | He owns a small construction company. | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Elemeno P, Dave Gibson | He is a feature host of The Lowdown, a New Zealand youth depression website. | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Green Day, John Kriftmeyer | To raise spending money for Green Day's first tour John drove a diaper truck | John is no longer a member of Green Day, he left before they reached mainstream popularity. He has now been replaced by Tre' Cool - Optimus Lime | ||
| Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong | To raise spending money for Green Day's first tour, Billie Joe flipped pizzas | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Green Day, Mike Dirnt | To raise spending money for their first ever tour tour, Mike shucked clams. | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Green Day, Mike Dirnt | Before he became famous he was a cook | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Green Day, Mike Dirnt | Mike is a part time owner of Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Green Day, Mike Dirtnt | He worked part-time at Billie Joe's mom's work, Rod's Hickory Pit | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong | He worked part-time at his mom's work, Rod's Hickory Pit | - Optimus Lime | ||
| Carolina Liar, Chad Wolf | Several odd jobs | A Native of Charleston, SC, he worked in several of them while in Los Angeles. - Rock Maninoff | ||
| Gene Watson, Gene Watson | auto body mechanic | in his early career his day job was at a Houston auto body shop - robert | ||
| Slipknot, Corey Taylor | P**n shop worker | EWW!!! - Glenn rousseau | ||
| none-solo artist, Freddie Cannon | truck driver | After his recording of "Tallahassie Lassie" hit the charts, he quit his job to become a full-time performer. - Barry Disbrow | ||
| Hard-Fi, Steve Kemp | Pest killer | - Dongquan | ||
| DragonForce, ZP Theart | Chauffeur | According to the liner notes from Power Quest's album "Wings Of Forever", ZP was working as a chauffeur, and arrived to record guest vocals for the album in a fancy limo and suit! - DJ Blaze | ||
| GoRemy, Remy Munasifi | Law School Student | He dropped out to devote his time to make YouTube Videos. - Rachel | ||
| Backstreet Boys, Kevin Richardson | Character costume at Disney World. | Kevin was Leonardo and Aladdin. - Celeste | ||
| Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley | Truck Driver | - Uh Uh Uh |
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| Optimus Lime | 11 |
| Susanna Viljanen | 7 |
| Ra'akone | 5 |
| Celeste (site rank #12) | 4 |
| Someone | 3 |
| Adrienne Ramseur | 2 |
| crazydon (site rank #13) | 2 |
| Anonymous | 2 |
| bridget | 2 |
| Rachel (site rank #38) | 2 |
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