Dammit! Beat me to it.

Someone who ended up working in sales at a few audio dealers and a couple of AV distributors was a customer in the early-'80s, starting when he was about 16. He was playing a gig at a local club and it was the first time we had seen each other in a long time- he reminded me of what I had told him many years before. He had come in with a friend and said "This must be the coolest job!" and I replied, "Makes a better hobby".

This was around the time the president of the company he was working for pissed the sales department off so much most of them quit and went to work for a company across the WI/IL border.