A friend once said to me that being a session musician was 50% talent and 50% "don't be an asshole." When someone is competent, pleasant to work with, and relia

A friend once said to me that being a session musician was 50% talent and 50% "don't be an asshole." When someone is competent, pleasant to work with, and reliable - the studio engineers notice, quietly ask for your info, and suggest you when a band needs someone. However, I think the problem with minimum wage jobs like fast food is that the kind of people who need that sort of job probably have a lot of problems in their life, among them money; it's hard to keep reliable transportation, you don't have paid time off to decompress or deal with family/medical stuff, and so on. You work a lot of hours to try to get ahead, which leaves little time for anything else.