JAIMIE VERNON – TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT

Long before I considered myself a profession record label weasel I worked in a government bunker as a data librarian. My job title was Records Management Assistant and my duties included archiving government documents, maps, tax records and all matter of ephemera – including name tags from VIPs who visited City Hall and ribbon cutting scissors from shopping mall openings attended by our politicians.

JAIMIE VERNON – JOB: SECURITY

Contrary to popular belief I haven’t always been in the music business. I’ve been playing music since 1978 (now retired), but my actual years working in the music industry – that is, getting paid for what I did – was 12 ½ years from November 1998 when I was hired as content editor for Sam The Record Man.com (see last week’s column) through June 2011 when my contract ended with dB Promotions doing radio promotion. I also ran my record label full-time simultaneously for 10 of those years. So, from the summer of 1979 until November 1998 I worked in both the private and public sector – that’s right, kids, I was a union man for awhile. But my work experience goes back even farther.