relevant to current discourses, one thing i will note about publishing as a person without a prestigious job is that authors without prestigious job do not put their non-prestigious job in their bios.

like, i have read many a zine in which the words "currently working at Starbucks/Whole Foods/Some Random Bar" do not appear, despite that being the truth for most of the contributors.

I think that's pretty recent? The about the author page that ends with "he has worked a grave-digger, eggroll roller, and warehouse forklift driver" is an old cliche. Having a bunch of peculiar jobs as a mark of character and experience.