THE creator economy has a habit of recruiting from the last places you would expect.
Nude Newz has interviewed dozens of creators about the jobs they left behind – and while plenty arrived from modelling, dancing or hospitality, some took a far stranger route.
From a sceptic who accidentally became a professional astrologer to a science graduate who spent her days hand-spawning trout, here are six of the most unlikely career pivots we have covered – in their own words.
The astrologer who set out to debunk it
Uwu Tofu, from Texas, US, started researching astrology at college purely to prove believers wrong – and ended up a professional astrologer, charging around $120 for a 90-minute consultation and earning up to $6,000 a month.
“I actually became an astrologer because I thought it was bullsh*t,” she said.
“But once I did my research and actually started using it, I was like, ‘Maybe they’re onto something.’”
The content creator, who has more than 500k Instagram followers, has since made an even bigger pivot – swapping natal charts for adult content, and now estimates she makes around $15,000 in an average month.
Read the full story: ‘I became a professional astrologer to PROVE it was nonsense – now I’ve made another unexpected career pivot’
The would-be first female Pope
Scarlett Jones grew up in Catholic school expecting to give her life to the Church – before a strip show on a girls’ holiday to Amsterdam changed everything. She now sees clients as a professional dominatrix.
“I’ve always had high expectations of myself, so when I was Catholic, I believed I would become the first female Pope,” she said.
“Nuns would come into school and talk to us about vocations and how you would receive a calling.
“I suppose stripping turned out to be my calling – what can I say?”
Read the full story: ‘I thought I’d be the first female POPE – now men pay me to lock them in a cage’
The laser physicist in a yurt
Amelia walked away from a fully funded physics PhD – and a future as a laser physicist – to run an adult content business from a solar-powered yurt in rural Washington, US, where she says she earns up to £80,000 a month.
“The irony is that I left a path many people saw as stable and successful, only to end up making more money while living in a yurt,” she said.
“That’s a contradiction I’m perfectly happy with.”
Read the full story: ‘I quit my physics PhD to make £80k a month on OnlyFans – now I live in a yurt and go dumpster diving for fun’
The nurse who couldn’t afford heating
Poppy Palmers loved caring for children on the ward, but 13-hour shifts on a nurse’s wage left her broke in Leeds.
“Even as a nurse, I still couldn’t afford to put my heating on. I was having cold showers. It was just such a depressing life,” she said.
After she and her partner Zach made £500 in three days selling videos, everything changed.
“Within a month of having an OnlyFans, we literally doubled our wages, so we quit our jobs and moved to Spain,” she said.
Read the full story: ‘I was a nurse having cold showers because I couldn’t afford heating – now my partner and I have travelled the world’
The machinist with vampire fangs
Makayla Moon, 31, spent her working life as a CNC machinist, programming industrial machines to cut metal – until her company lost a major contract and her week was cut from five days to three.
She asked for a layoff and threw herself into stripping and OnlyFans, where a set of vampire fangs became an unlikely business asset.
“The money as a machinist is not that good, so you’re living for your paycheck,” she said.
“Now I can cash out money whenever I want.”
Read the full story: ‘I quit my factory job for OnlyFans – then my vampire fangs unlocked a fetish I never knew existed’
The scientist who bred baby fish
Emmie P, an environmental science graduate from upstate New York, US, spent her days hand-spawning trout and salmon at a fish hatchery – a job she still calls the most rewarding she ever had.
“Working at the fish hatchery was probably the most rewarding job I ever had,” she said.
But with conservation funding drying up after graduation, she pivoted to adult content and streaming – and now earns more than $50,000 (£39,000) a month.
“To get a job in my major would mean sacrificing the pay – because none of the programmes I’d be working on are getting funded,” she said.
Read the full story: ‘I gave up breeding fish to bare all online – America’s broken economy left me no choice’
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