electrician
One of my first mentors, an OZ, scrounged his first licence dollars by being an underground electrician in one of OZ's famous northern mines.
He got to fly super sabres with the great Frank Minjoy (spelling?) in the RCAF doing amongst other things very black night intercepts during the cold war over the North Pole where you would - "run format on a blow pipe and if he got shot down shoot," twenty minuites later sitting down to eggs and soda-parp for breakfast.
He also had a couple of K hours in a PBY4 taxiing along the Brahmaputra and delta (spelling again) on electromagnetic surveys. had a total of 18K fixed wing and acheived his 2k in rotary and 20K total the day after i turned with a brand new licence, he said to me "Say, you got your licence take it for a fly!".
He was one of only very few oz rotary pilots in those days that had an ATPL,
took me a while to figure out what he was on about.