I had just graduated from Michigan State and I was working at a hospital. I was a security guard, I worked at night. Part of my job was putting bodies in the morgue and doing that kind of thing. I used to put bodies in the morgue and take them out. When I got done doing that at the hospital, in the morning I would work out before I went to sleep.
I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
After getting a law degree, I spent five unhappy months as a corporate attorney.
If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
I really enjoyed my degree. But there's so many people I went to uni with that didn't.
After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.
If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.
Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
Too many people go to university.
Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working.
I graduated from college and went straight into a job with MTV.
