Occupations
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A list of songs that mention jobs from all walks of life.
Central theme
- The Bloodmobile - many jobs mentioned
- Boss Of Me
- Butcher's Tale
- The Cap'm
- Chip The CHiP
- Computer Assisted Design
- Counterfeit Faker - undertaker, police
- Dog Walker
- Door To Door Minotaur - also, "the scientist was considered kind of disgraced"
- Dr. Sy Fly
- Employee Of The Month
- Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal
- Hillbilly Drummer Girl
- Hypnotist Of Ladies
- I Am A Paleontologist
- Jackie The Clipper - "I'll tell you what I already told the cops", "Jackie the killer, Jackie the overconfident and undercompetent butcher"
- I'm the Substitute Now
- The King Of Wingo
- Meet James Ensor - painter
- Minimum Wage
- Night Security
- One More Parade
- Operators Are Standing By
- Pour Poor Me More Please - a master bartender
- Protagonist - actor, screenwriter
- Rat Patrol
- Rowboat Mayor - also, "Seems all shipmates have the same position"
- Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - Mr. Horrible is a boss, the Ugliness Men are his workers
- She Was A Hotel Detective
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future
- (Since You Joined) The Corporation
- Spy
- Trucker's Coffee - trucker, mime
- What Bothers The Spaceman? - day watchman, space man
- Who Are The Electors?
- Working Undercover For The Man
Briefly mentioned
- Alphabet Lost And Found - "There was a chauffeur", "When the garbage collector"
- Anyone Can Fill My Shoes - "I'm in a circus, I'm moving all the time"
- Atlanta - "Electric guitars are nurses"
- Birdhouse In Your Soul - "I'd be fired if that were my job"
- Cells - "Different cells have different jobs"
- Certain People I Could Name - "The few surviving samurai", "the genocidal overlord"
- Climbing The Walls - "I got so bad I quit my job, then I got a new job climbing the walls"
- Cloisonné - "You have a friend in law enforcement", "All your doctors have gone home"
- College Town - "She's got a job at the townie bar"
- Complete Paranoia - the German scientist guy
- Dan Vs. Cog - "He's a thirsty drummer"
- Down To The Bottom Of The Sea - "And I'm a sailor man."
- Dr. Kildare - needs a drama teacher, acting coach
- The Fellowship Of Hell - "Prison guards ain't free"
- Good To Be Alive - "I'm not a motivational speaker", "I'm not some mega-church style preacher", "I'm not a life coach or some teacher"
- Haunted Floating Eye - "Workin' as a shill in a traveling show"
- Icky - "Full-time occupation listed as life-draining leech"
- If I Wasn't Shy - uniforms, time clock cards
- I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die - mild reference to being a waiter
- I Left My Body - "I'm waiting endlessly on a receptionist" and "I left my body with my old landlady..."
- I'm Def - "I got a job as a test pilot"
- Last Wave - "Then take me down to the postman...tell the postman to throw them to..."
- Let's Get This Over With - "Even when you're out of work you still have a job to do / Even when you don't know what it is / Your job knows what it is"
- Mink Car - "Silver Chauffeur"
- Mr. Hughes Says - "Tell the pilot and the blimp", "Tell the boxer and the fist"
- Number Three - "I went to the president"
- Or So I Have Read - astronauts, mime, clown
- Our Cannibal Friends - "The DJ was ready to get us ready to say goodnight"
- Poison Flowers - Who'll type manifestos at my summer job?"
- Rabid Child - truck drivers
- Right Before Showtime - "Hour thirteen: I'm a respected artist"
- Shape Shifter - UPS delivery man, anchorwoman, TV repairman
- She's An Angel - "The secretary says he's on another line"
- Sketchy Galore - "If he ever had a job, it must have been a job / For a guy like Sketchy Galore"
- Sleeping In The Flowers - "Copy shop clerk", "Tell my boss that I've been fired"
- Snowball In Hell - dialog about the sales business
- So Crazy For Books - "Those librarians all run to me"
- Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "There's some horrible business left/For him to attend to"
- South Carolina - "Garcon [waiter], summon up a new cocktail"
- The Bloodmobile - Different cells' different jobs
- The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - "Like before when I quit working"
- They'll Need A Crane - "Don't call me at work again, no, no, the boss still hates me"
- Vestibule - "I am the germ collector / I'm getting paid for every jar"
- We've Got A World That Swings - "Punch the clock at eight"
- When It Rains It Snows - doctor, waitress, fireman (with a hat)
- You'll Miss Me - morticians, detectives
