3 unexpected jobs I’ve tried in life

There’s 3 ‘jobs’ I did that don’t belong on my LinkedIn. Haha. 

I fit into the crew of black sheep, the kind who don’t really feel like they belonged with family nor friends so finding work to earn as much money as possible to try to get out was the 1st goal back then. At the time 18 year old me didn’t know 100% what I was getting out of but any distractions from life was ideal during those adolescent years - which are arguably the worst. 

That period of life is when you have no idea - you are trying to figure out everything - who you are, what you like, why you are trying to hard to get into a university when you have 0 interest in it. It’s all such a confusing time. You are lead to believe that money is your only answer yet they don’t teach you in school anything about finances - isn’t that weird? (I will get into that another time) 

So in my pursuit of trying to escape my own internal conflict of figuring out life - I just hid behind a lot of opportunities that showed up - I remember trying out a few odd jobs & jumping at any chance I could to stay out of the house. So here’s 3 of the oddest that need to be mentioned:

I’ll start with the 1 job I highly regret NOT taking: Marketing for Escorts. Hahaha

Mind you when I stepped into this interview I had NO idea that it was for escorts at the time. The odd red velvet couch for the interview was highly suspicious. But I figured it out after the Google Keyword list of naughty words that I can not repeat & the girls in 6 inch platform heels coming and going.

I was meant to do marketing for these girls, meaning prep their blogs, optimize their SEO, manage their Social accounts - write sexy seducing comments to get them to book a time? 

I got offered the cash in hand for the job but I didn’t go ahead with it. But now I think about how funny that would have been.

But back to my very first job I did do: ‘Door Bitch’. 

This is a term for the person who stands outside the asian club with the bouncer & gets to determine if you were allowed in or not. This role’s responsibility was to actively judge if you were well dressed enough, not too drunk already.

I loved being Door Bitch haha, there was a certain power to it. I enjoyed meeting new people having short encounters & the chaos of it all. I eventually evolved into managing tables. Damn I was living but it fueled a very unhealthy stage of my life I like to call the Party Animal Era which is a story for another time. 

It was the start of my insight into how business can be generated. That I didn’t have to just work at a larger organization to see income. It also made me adapt super quick, and build up a stamina like no other - this job was a 11pm - 3am shift.

This paired with my 1st ever paid contract gig. People Leader at the Melbourne Fashion Festival. That’s not the official title - thats made up but I interviewed, hired and managed about 350 volunteers for the fashion festival across 20 different venues. I think this goes down as my favorite gig ever. 

But this one was defining. 

This was in a time before we had access to insane tools/ platforms of management. I managed this all in a self-created master spreadsheet that tracked not only interviews, their shifts, how they were doing - the fact I had even created this myself. I was thriving. 

I applied the same leadership style I was attuned to at Apple with my team, treating everyone with an interest in their own paths & I also prided myself on knowing everyone by their first name.

I got PAID for this contract and got invited back the next year too. A source of income that had come from me from going to get it. I guess this was in fact the start of my entrepreneurial journey. I went on to be inspired to make my first failed start up around a problem that I identified by meeting all of the volunteers. 

It’s so important to just try things - I don’t think anyone is that clear on what they want then. And to figure out any sparks, interest the best way is to just apply yourself & figure it out along the way - see what things light you up and others that don’t. 

See how you thrive yourself and find the situations you have to say no to. 

Don’t make assumptions that prevent you from doing things - I mean what do you have to lose? I now have the craziest interview story with a bunch of escorts. 

No one will know 100% what the path is but you get to be in control of it. And the more data feedback you get on what you enjoy, what do you feel passionate about, the more you get to define what that passion is.