r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 10h ago

SOCIETY In 2018, a customer secretly photographed Geoffrey Owens best known for playing Elvin on the Cosby Show working at a Trader Joe's in Clifton, New Jersey, and the images were published online in an attempt to "job-shame" him. Instead, he was able to get more work as an actor because of it.

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He went on to explain that most actors and indeed most entertainers are gig workers. For every a-lister many other actors work gig to gig and having steady work and a steady income that pays well is really hard because the field is so unpredictable. And many actors including many well know actors and artists have to have a secondary source of regular income between gigs and for most working entertainers it means getting a regular job and taking whatever roles you can get.

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u/Ok_Outcome_6213 7h ago

I don't get the mentality of job shaming. I've almost never been without a job simply because I went out and got a job at gas stations or fast food restaurants or as a cleaner if I was ever out of work. Yeah, none of them were glamorous or going to help "advance my career" or anything, but a job is a job and honest money shouldn't be looked down on.

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u/CaptainJin 7h ago

Some people suck

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u/UncleBuggy 1h ago

Hard agree. Not everything can advance your career and it's okay to just do something. I'm at a phase in my work life where I'm looking to move into something simpler and try my level-best to coast into retirement. Striving is over and they's young hungry people wanting my job. What the next role may be remains to be seen, but it won't be a high status situation, nor is my current situation. Meanwhile, mi esposa is in a high level job that sometimes requires us to socialize (network) with people at her level or above. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to spin that when people not inevitably, but always, ask what I do for a living. I work. It's not glamorous.

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u/User1-1A 20m ago

Not everyone has worked a shitty job, and unfortunately, some of those people think they're superior for it.