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There are so many dream bands that I open for, but no one knows who they are.

And then Jack White is one of those, not every, honestly, still my family was like, who?

And I'm like, come on. I was like, da da da da da da da da da da da da like come on like you don't know that one come on because it's just so

maddening when I'm like look look I'm rising I'm doing it and they're like who's that

like I don't care and I'm like crap who's that? Like, I don't care. And I'm like, crap. But like, you get all the

congratulations text messages and like, wow, you're really doing it. Like, I can't believe you're,

you know, you made it. And I'm like, I'm broke, but thank you. You know, I would have thought

when I've started to do music a long time ago that, like,

surely someone who just opened for Jack White isn't, like, working five jobs, you know?

This is Mel. She's 35 years old, and she lives in a small town in northeast Pennsylvania.

Tell me what you do for work. So I do many things for work. But my main thing that I tell people that I do is I am a musician.

And then my second main thing is I'm a hypnotherapist.

And number three is a substitute teacher to fill in the blanks.

And number four is a cleaner.

And number five is anything else I could get my hands on if I need to.

Mel juggles all the jobs because she loves playing music.

She's in a bunch of bands that all mostly fall under the umbrella of rock.

Actually, I play drums in two bands.

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