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In reply to the discussion: What have you done to earn money in your life? Here's my list. [View all]DFW
(54,739 posts)Mowed lawns for people in the neighborhood with lawns
Page at the U.S. Senate
Played music in LOTS of different venues, including:
Local area dances
For Salvador Dali in Barcelona, Spain (1968)
Russian music for the exiled Czarist community in Washington
The Armenian church of Philadelphia
The Ambassador Theater in Washington DC (local Fillmore East while it lasted)
La Terrasse restaurant in Philadelphia
The National Press Club in Washington (for President Ford and VP Rockefeller)
Various Folk festivals all over Germany
The Iron Horse in Northampton, MA*
A Few Folk Festivals in the Netherlands
An Assyrian café in Philadelphia (never even knew they were still around: Ashurbannipal !)
A bunch I have since forgotten
*I first had the Iron Horse in NYC. I forget the name of the place in NYC. It was on 14th Street, and featured folk and bluegrass, anyway.
I have also played with Theodore Bikel and for Bill Clinton, but didn't take any money for either.
Laborer at the map warehouse of the U.S. Geological survey
Counter at a bike rental in Rock Creek Park in D.C.
Counter at a fix-it shop in Falls Church, VA
Got recruited by my current outfit in summer, 1975, to travel the world, do oddball stuff and get paid for it, never looked back!