There is a Canadian stand-up comic named Brent Butt (no, seriously...) who one day asked himself “What would I be doing right now if I hadn’t decided to go into show biz?”
His answer to himself was “I’d probably be back in my home town in Saskatchewan pumping gas.”
He took that idea and parlayed it into Corner Gas, one of the most successful Canadian TV comedies of all time. Of course he plays a guy who pumps gas in rural Saskatchewan.