Prior to becoming famous and successful musicians, Dan and Pat both dropped out of college to focus on other things. After having met through their brothers and forming the musical two-piece, they each held down a number of diverse odd jobs, including mowing lawns... badly. Preferring to focus their talents on playing music, the pair got themselves fired from their lawn mowing duties because "we didn't edge a lawn correctly. I always f*ck up details like that." When not mowing lawns or playing music, Auerbach could be found handing out flyers, a job which he also promptly lost when his boss discovered 600 of the flyers discarded in a sewer. Carney, meanwhile, earned a wage in telemarketing.
