A city-sponsored report claims the Seattle “music industry” generates $650 million annually and 8,700 jobs.

Granted, this includes music teachers, office workers at piped-in-music companies (Muzak was headquartered here for a few years), symphony members, etc. But still, there’s real careers out in what many people still think of as a marginal starving-artist activity. It’s just that “rock star” isn’t the most stable of those careers.

There’s an analogy there for word people such as I, somewhere, I’m sure.