Moonlighting librarian

During the 81st Academy Awards, the winner for best foreign film was a Japanese movie called 'Departures'. It is about an out-of-work cellist who takes a job as a mortician. This made me remember a my own funny anecdote.

During my first job, there was this former librarian who still visits our library. He was then working in a hospital library. He immediately became a friend. Then in one of his visits he asked me if I wanted a sideline. My answer was yes of course, who doesn't want extra income. Then he asked me how I was with make-up and such beauty paraphernalia. I proudly told him that I can wield a paintbrush so I could be good with make-up brush. With straight face he then told me that there is a job available that will not become a conflict with my current job because I need only to report to it only in the evenings. The job was a hospital funeral make-up artist.

There was no job of course. He was just making fun of me, but had there been one, I would have taken it.