Reminds me - one of the ways Philip Glass made ends meet in the early days was by being a plumber, and he was particularly bad at that.
Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) worked as a field ornithologist in his twenties. The samples (=dead birds) he collected from New Guinea are notoriously poorly labeled and poorly prepared (e.g. bits or flesh, missing feathers, etc.).
Einstein may have sucked as a patent clerk too. We tend to look at people's achievements rather than the things they did poorly at unless that's all they did.
I was - alas - a pretty good postman. That's not much of a legacy.
It sounds like anyone could have been better than Faulkner as a postman by caring a whit for the job.
The point is - it seems that I could have been clearer - that Faulkner would likely not have been as well known as he is today if he had been a better postman.
Ahhh Bukowski was my favorite postman
John Prine still has my vote as best former postman.
Yes, well, Trollope was quite good at being a postal official, though he got off to a slow start.
Oddly inspiring
Despite its being in the title (and URL) of the article itself, it seems almost certain that the first 'a' doesn't belong.
Yikes, how did we miss that! Reminds me of "Paris in the the spring".