Talk about a complete career switch. A Wall Street intern is giving up finance to enter the world of pornography. But wait until you hear how she set about embarking on a new career in porn: She posted in ude selfies from her bad job at a major Wall Street bank’s bathroom and then quit.
Paige A. Jennings was already moonlighting in the porn industry as “Veronica Vain” before she quit her internship with Lazard Asset Management to fully enter the adult film industry. Jennings worked as a part-time intern in Lazard’s alternative-investments marketing group in New York from June 2, 2014, until Jan. 9, 2015, reports Business Insider. And Jennings has been pretty graphic in explaining why she wanted to leave Wall Street.
“I just left a job on Wall Street for a porn career because I can’t stop masturbating at work … ” Jennings says on her Twitter bio. And she tweeted that she “quit [Wall Street] before it fired me.”
It was NewsCult that first reported that Jennings had posted nude selfies from inside the bathroom of Lazard’s offices on her Twitter account. She has since taken them down. Jennings said she was actually surprised people at her job found out about her side hustle. She told BroBible, that she didn’t expect her coworkers to find her naked pictures since they weren’t actually attached to her real name.
“I had already put in my two weeks’ notice and was sticking around to tie up some loose ends,” she said. “My boss’s boss called me over the phone with an HR lady. I had a pretty good reputation intellectually, and this executive was aware of that. However, he obviously couldn’t have me coming back to the office when likely just about everyone had seen me half naked online,” she told BroBible.
Jennings is hoping to make her adult-film debut on The Sex Factor, a reality-porn competition show. She’s been called back for a final casting and has been meeting with agents in the industry. Jennings used to work as a stripper, but says she didn’t see it as “a viable career path.” It seems she’s more business minded. She would like to one day create an “adult-industry-centered venture-capital fund.”
