What is a piper's real job?

Playing the bagpipes is a great hobby, and for me at least it's a source of some extra income when I do weddings and things. I know of a few pipers who make their entire living by playing gigs and giving lessons (mostly lessons), get paid as a full-time piping instructor at a school or college, or run piping-related businesses (like the Tone Czar or Roddy MacLeod).  It's really hard to make a living just from competition income, since amateur competitions don't have prize money and to win prize money you have to be very good. 

So that makes many pipers who need a primary source of income, and as you might imagine the jobs pipers hold are quite diverse.  At the amateur level, I know pipers who are teachers, students, insurance adjusters, stay at home moms, electricians, newspaper editors, cops, fire fighters, computer programmers, military, cubicle-based paper pushers, opthamologists, nurses, bus drivers; the list is nearly endless.

I was in a discussion the other day about what some of the top-level pipers do (or did) for income when they weren't piping.  Here's a few I know.  Willie McCallum is an accountant for Glasgow University, and somehow still finds time to win every major prize in piping; Stuart Liddell is a piano tuner; the late Gordon Duncan was a rubbish collector; his brother Ian Duncan used to be a math teacher, and now teaches piping in a school; Colin MacLellan makes reeds and renovates houses; Lorne Cousin was a lawyer and now plays in a Celtic fusion band called Dram.  I'm curious about Roddy MacLeod; he's now the principal of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, but what did he do before?  I also wonder about Angus MacColl.

Just some thoughts, trying to remember that the people at the top of the discipline are regular people and have regular people jobs, too.