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Waiting for a Break
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Artists, especially writers, actors, and musicians in their early days get by on jobs not directly related to their desired eventual career in order to prevent themselves from being a literal Starving Artist. They may ferry people about as taxi drivers, lend friendly ears as bartenders, pump gas at a garage, or put their charisma to use in getting the tips as waiter or waitress. That last one is especially common, and though this trope covers all iterations of artists working in what are traditionally low-paying and often considered less 'fulfilling' jobs, the waiting profession is what has influenced the trope name. It isn't uncommon to see a waiter or waitress in fiction who is waiting for the day they get spotted by an agent, a movie studio picks up their script or they net that record deal. In fact, if anybody connected to these trades decides to go out for a meal at the restaurant a character who falls into this trope works in expect them to attempt to woo their customer with their performance of Hamlet, try to serve them their screenplay as a course, or break into song at random. The reason for the prevalence of the selected career being waiting is, as explained in this article which shares its title with this trope (but the name was coined independently, it's a Pun after all) is because it lends itself well to an auditioning actor. They can work a few long nights a week and use the rest of the time to audition or rehearse, and as mentioned above they can use the charisma many consider necessary to be an actor to get themselves tips, with the people they are serving as their audience. In other words, Truth in Television and Write What You Know are in play here. Related to Starving Artist (or Giftedly Bad if the reason they are still in such a job isn't that they are an undiscovered genius, but they just think they are). Contrast Pursue the Dream Job. See also Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job,and I Was Young and Needed the Money for someone whose past need to make ends meet led them into something less reputable than waiting tables. Sister trope to Paying Their Dues, the unimpressive gigs most artists are reduced to taking at the beginning of their careers. |
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A number of characters in Bojack Horseman worked as waitpeople and Starbucks employees soon after arriving in Los Angeles, while waiting for a break. Bojack could himself be seen as a successful example of this trope. | |
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Story of Seasons: Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns: Hinata is an aspiring actor who is mostly seen while at his day job at the store in Tsuyukusa. His Romance Sidequest can be taken to a point where he lands a spot in a play. Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town: Blaire is a waitress at one of Olive Town's eateries and dreams of becoming a movie star. |
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Cordelia in the first and second seasons of Angel is working at Angel Investigations until "[her] inevitable stardom kicks in". By the third, she's fully committed to being a detective/monster hunter. | |
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Karen is working as a waitress at the beginning of Smash until she gets her break. Fortunately for her, it happens early enough that she can quit by the second episode. | |
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Everyone on Party Down is only working in catering until they get their big break. Or so they hope. Henry is the only one who's given up his chance of stardom. | |
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Elvis Presley was a truck driver. | |
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In Extras most of the main characters are aspiring actors who have only been able to be cast as extras, and this trope appears. Though main character Andy Millman does have an agent, he works part-time at Carphone Warehouse to make ends meet... and by 'he' we don't mean Andy, we mean his agent. Darren is a very bad agent. | |
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The Sandman (2022): Hal Carter aspires to be a Broadway star, but had to give up and move home to Cape Kennedy, where he runs a bed and breakfast and does drag performances on the side. In the season finale, he's inspired to try again. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne was a construction site labourer, a trainee plumber, an apprentice toolmaker, a car factory horn-tuner, and an abattoir worker. | |
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David Mamet's Edmond has a monologue to an actress who is "really" a waitress. | |
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Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns: Hinata is an aspiring actor who is mostly seen while at his day job at the store in Tsuyukusa. His Romance Sidequest can be taken to a point where he lands a spot in a play. | |
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Shizuka Sakaki from Shirobako wants to become a prominent voice actress, but she's currently waiting tables at a snack bar while only being able to get very minor roles. Her arc during the series has her struggling with this, until the final few episodes, where she finally lands the role of a prominent character in an anime. | |
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"Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols (except it's a musician, not an actor). | |
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In Hoodwinked!, the Woodsman turns out to be an out-of-work actor trying to get his next big break. In the meantime, his day job is selling schnitzel out of a food truck. | |
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Mary Jane from the Spider-Man Trilogy films (in the comics they're based on, she's actually more successful at getting work, having had a lot of modeling jobs, a recurring soap part, some B movies, and a well-received off-Broadway play whereas her film counterpart struggles much more, with a soap opera telling her to get some acting lessonsnote though the novelization reveals she was actually rejected due to Nepotism, and while she does establish herself as a model and off-Broadway actress a couple years later, she ends up as a singing waitress after being fired from her Broadway debut). Midway through the first film, she chats with Peter on the street, and when her boss yells at her for walking off the job, she ashamedly opens her coat to reveal she's wearing a waitress uniform underneath it. | |
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A Cracked's Photoplasty contest "If Restaurants Were Honest" entry #3 shows a woman's jacket with both a "Welcome to Los Angeles!" button pinned to it alongside a Starbucks name tag saying "Hi There I'm Failed Actress #112,873" | |
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After the Jungle Series: Even by the time she's well into her 40snote And at this points, she's married with two kids who're both in middle school and her "baby sister" is now married with three kids, with the two oldest kids both being in elementary school, Olga Sherman (née Pataki) still clings to her "pipe dream" (as Helga calls it) of becoming an actress, taking periodic trips to New York City with her family (convinced that she's a star just waiting to be discovered). | |
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Yumi's Cells: When Yumi quits her office job to Pursue the Dream Job of writing, she takes up a part-time job at a book store to make ends meet. The book store eventually closes down, so she fills in for her former coworker who is getting married. As she's ready to give up on her dream and go back to the office, the chief editor of a publishing company comes across one of her manuscripts and helps her become a published author. | |
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Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town: Blaire is a waitress at one of Olive Town's eateries and dreams of becoming a movie star. | |
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Penny from The Big Bang Theory works at a Cheesecake Factory restaurant whilst attempting to become an actress. She eventually gives up on acting (after having nothing to show for it except a hemorrhoid ad and two bad movies) and has a successful career as a pharmaceutical representative (although she admits that pretty much the only thing she actually likes about the job is the high pay). | |
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Averted with the title character of Melody. She doesn't take a food service job while working toward her big break, as she's discovered right after she starts performing her music publicly. | |
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Carey from The Other Two is a struggling waiter/actor who watches his little brother become a Youtube sensation virtually overnight. | |
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Amanda Straw of Elite Beat Agents is a love letter to this trope, being an aspiring dancer who has been working as a waitress for two years. As her story starts, her boss is ready to fire her, her boyfriend is crushing her dreams, and she's facing eviction from her apartment, but with the help of the titular Agents, she impresses customers, pays for singing lessons, and nails a final audition, landing a starring role on stage. | |
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Illustrated in this exchange from Pinky and the Brain | |
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Seinfeld: Kramer moves to LA and tries to market his script to Fred Savage while serving him as a waiter. | |
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The first level of the Entertainment career (i.e TV, movie, or Broadway actor) in The Sims is Waiter/Waitress. | |
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Troll (1986): Jeanette Cooper is an aspiring actress who works as a waitress between auditions. | |
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Kathy from Daughter for Dessert wants to be a writer, but doesn't have the focus to make good on any of her ideas. Meanwhile, her biggest writing accomplishment isn't even hers (her hit erotica series actually being written by Amanda). In the "good" Kathy ending, Kathy finally gets her big break after publishing a best-selling book. | |
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George Michael started out as a DJ. | |
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In Taxi Bobby was an actor-cabbie Lampshaded in the pilot by Alex when he first met Elaine: |
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In Heat Guy J, Kia Freeborn is doing odd jobs like waiting tables while he attempts to become a famous blues singer/guitarist. | |
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Elvis Costello was a data entry clerk at Elizabeth Arden and worked for a short period as a computer operator at the Midland Bank computer centre in Bootle. | |
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The Incredible Jessica James: Jessica teaches kids at a theater nonprofit in Hell's Kitchen while she tries to get her playwright career off the ground. | |
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Bisk from Splatoon 2 has dreams of being a rock star, and he left his lover behind to pursue a band career in Inkopolis. In the meantime, he works as the proprietor of the shoe store Shella Fresh. | |
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NUMB3RS: Brought up in Hollywood Homicide, as the victim was someone who was trying to break into Hollywood and was working as an escort for people in Hollywood while doing so. | |
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In the Mickey Mouse Works short "How To Be a Waiter", Goofy starts out as one but then quits to become an actor. Eventually, he gets a role in a film... as a waiter. | |
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Prima from Mimpi Metropolitan is a soap opera extra and paid audience member who aspires to be a famous actor. When the pay he gets from being an extra is not enough for his living, Prima works as motorcycle taxi driver. After he gets promoted to field coordinator in his agency, he slowly stops taking such side jobs. | |
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Freddie Mercury sold second-hand clothes in Kensington Market in London with Roger Taylor. He also held a job as a baggage handler at Heathrow Airport. | |
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Tom Jones worked in a glove factory and was later employed in construction. | |
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In La La Land, Mia works as a barista at a coffee shop within a movie studio while she waits for her big break as an actress. | |
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In Moving Pictures, Ginger works as a waitress during a slow patch in her career, while Victor attempts horse-holding (the Discworld's equivalent to valet parking). Victor and another more experience horse-holder discuss the fact that acting ability is a useful skill in this line of work, as someone who provides a good "'oss-'olding experience" will get more repeat trade than someone who's merely good at holding horses. | |
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One of the minor heroes trying out for the team in Wildguard: Casting Call is Super Temp, who is just doing the whole superhero thing until his band hits it big. It does — because of the publicity generated by his appearance on the show. | |
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L.A. Story: "Ask for me, I'm Shan your waiter, and I also act." | |
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On Difficult People, both Billy and Julie are aspiring actors and many episodes' plots deal with their attempts to break into showbiz. While they wait for their big break, Billy is a waiter and Julie writes TV recaps (while being supported by her live-in boyfriend). | |
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Sting was a bus conductor, a building labourer, a tax officer, and an English teacher. | |
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There was an actor/cabbie in Time Chasers. Not a good actor, either. | |
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The Sandman: In the issue "24 Hours", Bette works as a waitress at a 24-hour diner, but sees herself as a novelist gathering material and dreams of hitting the big time with a novel inspired by the people she meets. | |
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Philip Glass worked odd jobs as a cab driver and plumber in New York even while he was beginning to be successful as a composer. This led to a memorable encounter when he wound up installing a dishwasher in a loft that turned out to belong to a gobsmacked Robert Hughes, art critic for Time magazine. On another occasion, a passenger in his cab remarked, “Young man, did you know you have the same name as a very famous composer?� | |
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When Zachary Beaver Came To Town: Toby’s mom is a waitress who dreams of being a professional musician and loves to sing to her customers. Toby worries that she will abandon her family to pursue her career, and he's right. | |
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Rod Stewart worked briefly as a silk screen printer. | |
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In Family Guy when Brian Griffin moved to LA he was a waiter at a catered party and used the opportunity to try to chat up some bigwigs. The operative word is try | |
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When Joey starts working at Central Perk in Friends and he says that it's supposed to go waiter to actor, not the other way around. Joey has also worked spraying cologne samples at a department store. |
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: David Hatter is an aspiring screenwriter who works nights at a seedy Hollywood motel while he waits for his self-proclaimed genius to be recognized. The player character needs to destroy his screenplay, which has inside information on the Masquerade; for extra cruelty points, they can intimidate him into surrendering it or sweet-talk him out of it by pretending to be a talent scout. | |
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