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A day job is a form of occupation
Profession

"A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain"....
 taken by a person in order to make ends meet while working another low-paying (or non-paying) job in their preferred career track. Archetypal examples of this are the woman who is working as a waitress for her "day job", while she tries to become an actress, and the professional athlete who must work as a laborer
Laborer

One of the construction trades, traditionally considered unskilled manual labor . In the division of labor, laborers have all blasting, Laborer hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to other trades ...
 in the off season because he is currently only able to make the roster of a semi-professional
Semi-professional

A semi-professional sportsperson is one who is paid to play and thus is not an amateur, but for whom sport is not a full-time occupation, generally because the level of pay is too low to make a reasonable living based solely upon that source, thus making the athlete not a full professional sports....
 team.

While many people do hold a full-time occupation, the term "day job" is specific to those who hold the position solely to pay their living expenses while working on the job (their "other", not necessarily "night", job) they intend to eventually move over to entirely.

Notable figures who have worked in this configuration include the Wright brothers
Wright brothers

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two United States who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful fixed-wing aircraft and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air Flight#Mechanical flight, on December 17, 1903....
, who held full-time employment as bicycle repairmen while they experimented on powered flights.

The phrase "don't quit your day job" is used as a humorous response to a poor performance.






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A day job is a form of occupation
Profession

"A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain"....
 taken by a person in order to make ends meet while working another low-paying (or non-paying) job in their preferred career track. Archetypal examples of this are the woman who is working as a waitress for her "day job", while she tries to become an actress, and the professional athlete who must work as a laborer
Laborer

One of the construction trades, traditionally considered unskilled manual labor . In the division of labor, laborers have all blasting, Laborer hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to other trades ...
 in the off season because he is currently only able to make the roster of a semi-professional
Semi-professional

A semi-professional sportsperson is one who is paid to play and thus is not an amateur, but for whom sport is not a full-time occupation, generally because the level of pay is too low to make a reasonable living based solely upon that source, thus making the athlete not a full professional sports....
 team.

While many people do hold a full-time occupation, the term "day job" is specific to those who hold the position solely to pay their living expenses while working on the job (their "other", not necessarily "night", job) they intend to eventually move over to entirely.

Notable figures who have worked in this configuration include the Wright brothers
Wright brothers

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two United States who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful fixed-wing aircraft and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air Flight#Mechanical flight, on December 17, 1903....
, who held full-time employment as bicycle repairmen while they experimented on powered flights.

The phrase "don't quit your day job" is used as a humorous response to a poor performance. The phrase implies that the performer is not talented enough in that activity to be able to make a career out of it.