Positive, Pivarnick had a short stint as a wannabe rapper, per TMZ, however that was not her career-defining second. As a substitute, she labored a regular job that confirmed a totally completely different aspect of her. The glamorous MTV star labored as an emergency medical technician for the Hearth Division of New York in her Staten Island hometown from 2016 to 2018, in line with TooFab. “Perpetually I’ve wished to assist folks, so I made a decision to go to high school and do it,” she stated in 2014, per In Touch Weekly. “Individuals actually did not place confidence in me, however I proved them mistaken, and now I’ve a profession I would like.”
Nonetheless, Pivarnick’s profession as an EMT in her hometown didn’t finish properly. Whereas she loved serving to folks, she was injured on the job whereas lifting a affected person. “I acquired injured on the job making an attempt to save lots of a life,” she stated, per Life & Style.
Pivarnick tore her again and was by no means the identical at work, so she took on fewer bodily jobs for the rest of her time as an EMT staffer. However the harm wasn’t what brought about her to depart the job she beloved. The fact star was reportedly sexually harassed by a few of her male EMT co-workers who acknowledged her from “Jersey Shore.” She in the end sued the New York Hearth Division over her sexual harassment claims, and in 2020, she settled with the town for $350,000.