For me this is easy - radio and party DJ. Even though I was not paid to be on our radio college station, getting a slot was competitive, and the name recognition in the area led to paying DJ gigs both on campus and in the community. It even helped me get my Megacorp internship, which led to Megacorp hiring me.
I joined the station planning to learn about and work on the engineering side, but the station training director and several of the on-air DJs all said "you have a radio voice, you should be a DJ" (they kindly did not say I had a face for radio, at least directly to me

). One of the screening steps was that on-air DJs had to have at least a first class FCC license, and I aced the test.
It was fun planning a show set, playing records, and being on the mic. But it grew my confidence a lot in terms of getting over shyness, public speaking, interacting with an audience (even though I could not see them, I visualized them), writing and editing (on some shifts we also had to a 5 minute newscast), and producing commercials (which actually I was paid a little for that). And doing parties was fun - planning the playlist, figuring when to play the fast songs, when to slow it down, etc. to make the crowd enjoy it. Fortunately I also kept away from the drinking and drugs, which actually helped me get hired more than a few times. In fact one promoter once trusted me enough to have me hold onto a gym bag full of maybe $20K-$30K in cash over a weekend, but that's a long story

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And of course, the personal side - I was naive and very surprised at the direct "come hither" opportunities that were offered. I could fill a volume with the stories. I never knew there were women who would stop by the station just to meet you because "we had to meet the face behind that voice"

, or wanted you to come over after a show just because you played a song or 2 for them

, or wanted to reward you for their enjoyment at a party by offering to go home with you



. Fortunately I had a long term perspective at that time so that I did not indulge. But I did not mind the attention. DW "hated" it - but liked dating a "celebrity" on campus and at parties

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I still did radio and parties for several years after starting with Megacorp. My office did not mind - in fact several of them hired me for their private parties, and I DJed at some of the office events. But I never looked a it as a serious career (even though one fully commercial station was interested in interviewing me), and I figured the money and stability was in this thing called "Data Processing", so I retired before DW and I were married. And the rest is history

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Interestingly, several times well into my Megacorp career (even into my 50s), after doing presentations at client locations, education workshops, or conferences, someone would come up to me and say "Were you ever a DJ? I used to listen to/went to parties with a DJ with your name who sounded just like you". Fun memories

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