 Among other odd jobs, he worked as a day laborer, a swimming pool lifeguard, a bouncer, a truck driver, a door-to-door salesman, a beverage delivery man, a stagehand, and a waiter for an Italian restaurant with ownership ties to the Gambino crime family.Landfair used the jobs as material for oral stories.Between traveling and working, he began self-promoting in roadside bars and coffee shops where he talked about his hoboing experiences.