Do illegal activities count as a job ?

after I finished school 18/19 y/o I was doing blast fishing for 1 year lol. Too lucky I'm still one in piece

before that a was working in my free time in a print shop.
How I got these jobs: friends ...
Blast fishing sounds fun. lol
I never really wanted to work a 9-5 job. I graduated as a geographer and tourism manager. I was in a good relationship with my landlady, who was friends with the owner of a medium sized travel agency, without me asking, she landed me a job lol. It was a done deal, the interview was mere formality, i was hired on spot. It was my first and last full time job in one. I needed to come to the conclusion that this offline fulltime job thing is not for me, so on one sunny day, i said fuck it and i quit. Later i went back and became the co-owner of the agency, but offline entrepreneurship sometimes is quite a bit of struggle, so we closed shop.
On and off i'm working for a company with quite an interesting profile. We do every kind of things. There was a project where we used laser technology to make soundproofing parts for the engine compartment of Volvo trucks and Audis. Not too long ago, we made display items for Davidoff tobacco, programming microchips and shit. The same company is a winery too

and they do wine bottling, occasionally we bottle 10k bottles a day. Good times and a reason to drink.

Since they became a winery, they are servicing the winery machines of a whole wine growing region. And not just winery machines, any kind of machine, can it be electronic, mechanic, hidraulic issue, if it can be fixed, they will fix it.
They developed a fitness kit, which stimulates the muscles with electronic impulses. While working out, if you wear the vest, it adds to the efficiency. I think they even patented it.
Let's just say that they don't go to the neighbor for creativity. It's pretty stimulating to work with people like them in a creative environment. Besides the online stuff or when i got enough of the online work, this kind of (occasional) offline work i can enjoy, not the 9-5 rat race though.