Posts tagged 'Side jobs while doing stand-up' (1)

Making ends meet as a stand-up

In Chicago, I was able to make a good amount of money doing standup, and I managed my friend’s coffee shop a couple days a week, and lived above it. So that was my jam there. Then I moved to LA thinking that I would be able to sort of just have one job and be okay, but that’s not the case. So I was working for a coffee shop for a while but my last day was September 1st, 2012. After Conan, I was able to book some things where I knew I would be able to take care of rent, and that was enough for me to get out of the service industry. I’d been doing the day job so long, I realized, ‘I really can’t do this anymore.’ So right now, I’m just doing standup, and I also took on a job with Doejo, the co...

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