They say if you love what you do for work, you never work a day in your life. HARDY is obviously living every musician and artist’s dream right now as he continues to be a hitmaker for himself and others. He’s one of those country stars that has the ability to craft a No. 1 song with ease. Sometimes he releases them himself (like “ONE BEER” and “TRUCK BED”). Other times, he pens hits for others (like Morgan Wallen’s “Up Down”). But long before he the singer-songwriter the world knows him as today, HARDY was just working to make ends meet as he tried to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. Everybody has powered through an odd job at some point in their life, right? The only thing is… most people aren’t crazy about those quirky career stints. HARDY evidently loved his. While speaking to Jimmy Fallon in a recent interview, HARDY revealed that one of his earliest jobs was a gravedigger. On the list of most morbid jobs, being the one that digs the six-foot-deep holes for others to eternally rest in is way up there. You’d think prepping graves for the dead would be a horrible way to make a living, but HARDY says he loved it: “It was really fun. Other than this job, it was the most fun I’ve ever had as a worker. I just had a great boss. Our departments were so small because our town was so small. It was the cemetery department/animal control. So in the summer, when it would get really hot and all of the grass would die, we’d just chase stray dogs around. But yeah, I was a gravedigger.” Glad that HARDY found joy in what’s typically considered a dead-end job (thanks, I’ll be here all week). And now, when you think about all of the songs that HARDY has about death… it kind of all makes sense. Tracks of HARDY’s like “Six Feet Under” and “Everybody Does” stand out as mortality-focused, and it was actually back in September of last year that the country star joined Katie & Company and explained why he likes to sing about death: “People were just like, ‘Man, you got a lot of songs about dying.’ And I always have, but I’ve just always thought like, in a world where everybody’s just always… nobody can agree on anything. The sky is not blue to some people. and, you know, it’s like people say death and taxes, but in reality, some people don’t even pay their taxes. But the only thing we have in common is death, and if that’s if that’s a theme that I wanna write about just to bring people together and make sure everybody you know in the room relates to one thing, then so be it.” Another song in HARDY’s catalogue that touches on death? That would be “Bottomland,” which the country star released as a single for COUNTRY! COUNTRY!. For much of the music video for the song, HARDY is laying down in a pine casket… and considering his past work experience, he probably felt right at home down there: “Bottomland” by HARDY The post HARDY Loved His Job As A… Gravedigger… Before Making It In Country Music: “It Was Really Fun” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.