As someone who has always spent haircut airtime furiously avoiding any specificity about work, I empathize with that. But I do want to offer the reassurance that saying you're "a musician" seems totally reasonable and normal, and either invites further inquiry or doesn't-- there are so many careers out there that are unfamiliar to others, and in my experience curious people are often genuinely interested to hear about things they don't know much about. At the very least, your job seems easy enough to imagine for most people if you draw the picture for them. (Versus someone responsible for, I dunno, international shipping customs logistics between specific parochial ports.)
As someone who has always spent haircut airtime furiously avoiding any specificity about work, I empathize with that. But I do want to offer the reassurance that saying you're "a musician" seems totally reasonable and normal, and either invites further inquiry or doesn't-- there are so many careers out there that are unfamiliar to others, and in my experience curious people are often genuinely interested to hear about things they don't know much about. At the very least, your job seems easy enough to imagine for most people if you draw the picture for them. (Versus someone responsible for, I dunno, international shipping customs logistics between specific parochial ports.)