Juneau singer-songwriter Marian Call has gone internet-famous again, this time with the Twitter hashtag #FirstSevenJobs.
On Monday, Call explained where the idea came from on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal.
RYSSDAL: You get this idea about first seven jobs. Tell me how you got there.
CALL: I’m writing a song about work. It might sound funny, but I don’t like to write songs about love and romance so much, I feel that’s been done. So I write about other things like spaceships and avocados and our relationship to work is what interests me right now. I always ask Twitter when I need songwriting ideas, so I just volunteered my first few jobs and asked other people what theirs were. And apparently, I struck a nerve.
RYSSDAL: Yeah, you totally did.
Thousands have shared their first seven jobs on Twitter, including celebrities from Buzz Aldrin to Ellen DeGeneres to Monica Lewinski.
Whoa — holy cow, my first trending topic! I asked because I’m writing a song about work. #first7jobs https://t.co/AzTcLLa74G
— Marian Call (@mariancall) August 6, 2016
While Buzz Aldrin said he went from dishwasher to astronaut by his fourth job, Call’s path to become a professional singer-songwriter was more circuitous. On her list, it’s number 22 — with a question mark.
Marian Call hosts “Tideline” from 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays on KRNN, a KTOO sister station.
Jeremy Hsieh is the deputy managing editor of the KTOO newsroom in Juneau. He’s a podcast fiend who’s worked in journalism since high school as a reporter, editor and television producer. He ran Gavel Alaska for 360 North from 2011 to 2016, and is big on experimenting with novel tools and mediums (including the occasional animated gif) to tell stories and demystify the news. Jeremy’s an East Coast transplant who moved to Juneau in 2008.
