CAREERS + ED ISSUE: How one guitarist's passion became a means of San Francisco survival

Tim Marcus in his home workshop.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF MILKMAN SOUNDLEFT OF THE DIAL It's a question most musicians are all too familiar with. If you tell someone at a party that you're a working musician, that person is inevitably going to ask — after a few polite questions about your hardcore band/classical jazz quartet/street-corner performance art where you alternate reading Blake passages with playing the accordion — "So, you have a day job?"Read more »