Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins: ‘I still don’t take this seriously’
In the age of the Great Resignation, everyone is having doubts about their career paths, even million album-selling musicians. Take Jim Adkins. His band, Jimmy Eat World, are nearing 30 years together and the emo godfathers are still touring relentlessly. But Adkins, 46, only conceded that his band might be a going concern around a decade ago – “I thought: ‘Huh, I guess this is what I do’” – and remains dubious about their long-term prospects. “I still don’t take this seriously as what I’m going to do in my life,” he says.
That scepticism may have something to do with Jimmy Eat World’s strange trajectory, which saw the Mesa, Arizona band
