Adam DeVine Shares His Secret High Paying Job

TL;DR

Adam DeVine reveals he made $10,000/month as a teenager selling Marriott vacation packages by phone, nearly quitting acting for it.

Key Points

• 1.Adam DeVine was a highly successful telemarketer at 19. He worked for Marriott selling vacation packages, became the number two salesperson in the company, worked only 3 hours a day, and cleared $10,000 a month.
• 2.DeVine almost abandoned his acting career for telemarketing. Living in Orange County, he told his mom he didn't need to move to Hollywood — she pushed him to leave, comparing his comfort-zone trap to Wolf of Wall Street.
• 3.Top performers were rewarded with a Top Gun hat for selling three packages in a day. DeVine stacked four hats on his head simultaneously to flex his success to coworkers.
• 4.The other hosts also had telemarketing pasts, but were terrible at it. One was slinging Obamacare surveys, another called for Greenpeace claiming 'we're down to one whale,' and Travis admitted he was at the bottom of the performance charts doing political surveys in southern Ohio.