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I’m a sexy mechanic – I was sacked when bosses discovered my racy side hustle… but I got the ultimate revenge
A SEXY mechanic was sacked when her bosses discovered her racy side hustle – but she managed to get her revenge.
Kirsten Vaughn, 24, was fired from the Don Ayres Honda dealership in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in February.
Kirsten Vaughn, 24, was fired from the Don Ayres Honda dealership[/caption]
But she managed to get her own back by working as a mechanic again even after being fired[/caption]
She was let go about a month after she created an account on the website OnlyFans and began posting explicit material.
But she managed to get her own back – by picking up a mechanic job elsewhere and running a successful TikTok account.
Kirsten told BuzzFeed News she was devastated to be let go from the dealership, saying: “I was a phenomenal employee with a perfect record that never got in trouble.
“When I went to work and I was on the clock, I did my job and I was good at it.
“I was appropriate when I was at work. I wore my uniform. I did what I had to do.”
Before she was fired, Kirsten met with management, who asked her about her explicit online account.
They allegedly discussed “the harm Vaughn’s OnlyFans account could do to the reputation of their business.”
She was later terminated for “violating company policy.”
Kirsten said: “To me it just does not make sense that they’re so concerned about their image and they’re so concerned about [my OnlyFans page], but they just let [other] things slide.”
Now she runs popular social media account @vermilionvixenmain.
She says she is now making more money from sharing raunchy content than she ever did as a mechanic.
The auto technician shares her knowledge in TikTok videos broadcast to her 1.3million followers.
The female technician has shown how her career in a predominantly male-dominated industry introduces a distinct set of baggage.
She says she was sexually harassed by several of her co-workers at the dealership after they discovered her OnlyFans account.
The mechanic revealed: “I had a coworker come up to me and… he was telling me how the salesmen were all huddled up in a group, and that he had come up to the group and they were on an OnlyFans page.
“They literally would not shut up about my page. I begged them to not tell anybody, and they would laugh in my face and say, ‘Ha ha ha, we’re helping you make money. Shut up.”
She’s not the only one to make a lifestyle change and pursue a side hustle.
A single mum who quit her job as a banker for an OnlyFans career now makes £1,200 a day and has just bought her third property.
Lucy Banks, from Perth, Australia, took up adult content creation after quitting her business banking job in 2019 – and now claims her two sons are “set for life”.
One teacher has told how she was constantly judged in school because of her curvy figure.
Romi Chase, 30, left education after growing tired of comments from students and staff who upset her with rude and sexual comments.
Romi left her homeland in 2017 and has since earned millions doing OnlyFans.
Meanwhile, plenty of others have taken to OnlyFans to rake in the cash.
Plus, a man who quit his job as a delivery driver now rakes in £35,000 a year through his genius side hustle.
Mohammed Amin, 28, now puts up flatpack furniture for a living – a year after he started doing odd handyman jobs to make some extra cash.
Kirsten got revenge on her former bosses[/caption]
She now runs a popular TikTok and Instagram[/caption]
She’s a female mechanic and runs an OnlyFans account too[/caption]
I’m a mum & I gave up my stable day job to pursue my secret side hustle – now I make £48k a MONTH
A MUM who used to wipe tables in her uncle’s restaurant now bags up to £48k a MONTH through her secret side hustle.
Vanessa James, 32, from Texas, worked seven days a week as a waitress – but gave up her taxing role for a more lucrative alternative.
Texan Vannessa James earns as high as $60,000 (£48,000) each month[/caption]
The mum-of-two used her earnings from OnlyFans to go under the knife – spending $50,000 (£40,000) on plastic surgery[/caption]
The mum-of-two had dabbled in OnlyFans while working at the restaurant, but decided to pursue it full time when she realised how much money it could make her.
Keeping it a secret from her family, Vanessa James travelled 400 miles across the state to Houston and pursued OnlyFans full time.
After launching in May 2020, it took the model only 3 months to bag her highest monthly earnings – raking in a show-stopping $60,000 (£48,000).
Vanessa has accrued an impressive 2.2 million followers across all social media platforms.
The mum has used the fruits of her labour to completely revamp her image – forking out $50,000 (£40,000) on plastic surgery including a tummy tuck, boob job, labiaplasty, brachioplasty, multiple rounds of liposuction and 3 BBLs.
Vanessa admits that she was initally ashamed of revealing her new-found plans to her loved ones.
She said: “So one day, after seeing how much money other women were making, I decided to quit my day job and move away, taking my two young sons, my sister and her two kids with me also.
“I told my family I was going away to live with someone I’d been talking to for a while and who promised to help me with finances.
“[At first], I didn’t want to tell them the truth.
“I rarely took nudes or sent provocative photos to anyone.”
Overjoyed that she took a leap of faith, Vanessa is using her handsome earnings to invest in her children’s future.
Vanessa continued: “My friends were very supportive and always have been, they don’t knock anyone’s hustle.
“I have no regrets in switching professions.
“I have made myself a stay-at-home mother while still working and I am able to spend so much more time with my children.
“It’s been such a blessing.”
The model has no regrets about making the switch to OnlyFans[/caption]
The former waitress grew disenchanted with wiping tables and decided to move away[/caption]
Pink Floyd peacemaker Nick Mason on reunion and 50th anniversary of The Dark Side Of The Moon
WHEN it comes to Pink Floyd, Nick Mason can safely be described as the man in the middle.
At opposite ends of the spectrum, however, are Roger Waters and David Gilmour, whose decades-long feud has reached new levels of bitterness.
Yet, with all the Floyd flak flying around him, Mason is gracious enough to praise the recent endeavours of both his old bandmates.
I’m talking to the affable drummer, 79, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fourth best-selling LP of all time, The Dark Side Of The Moon.
Mason describes Waters’ contentious re-recording of the prog-rock classic, due out later this year, as “terrific”.
And he marvels at Gilmour’s “extraordinary skill” in pulling together last year’s standalone Pink Floyd single in support of Ukraine.
Hey, Hey, Rise Up! features vocals recorded a cappella in Kyiv by singer/soldier Andriy Khlyvnyuk, with Gilmour, Mason, Guy Pratt (bass) and Nitin Sawhney (keyboards) adding their parts in the UK.
“What David managed to do was a triumph of engineering. Remarkable really and a nice thing to be associated with.”
I’ve always thought of Mason as keeper of the flame, the only surviving member who would jump at the chance of a reunion.
When asked if the band has unfinished business, he replies: “You never know what will be thrown up. I’m tempted to say I’m available for anything.”
But don’t hold your breath. Mason has virtually no chance of getting the old adversaries to kiss and make up.
Their latest spat revolves around arch-antagonist Waters’ punchy stance on both Israel and Ukraine, which led Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson to vent her fury on Twitter.
“Sadly, Roger Waters, you are anti-Semitic to your rotten core,” she raged. “Also a Putin apologist.”
She followed up with an eye-watering list of accusations, end- ing on “megalomaniac”, which Gilmour supported by commenting: “Every word demonstrably true.”
‘It was a group project’
Cue a swift riposte: “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments which he refutes entirely. He is currently taking advice as to his position.”
Of course, what is lost in all this kerfuffle is the still incredible The Dark Side Of The Moon, now given sumptuous box set treatment with a sparkling remaster and a richly atmospheric live performance as the centrepieces.
Originally released on March 1, 1973 and housed in its iconic prism sleeve, the album draws on life’s big issues against a backdrop of overwhelming music.
The passage of time, mortality, greed, the futility of war, inequality, insanity — they’re all addressed in Waters’ unflinching lyrics.
But Dark Side was never just about him (even if he thinks so!) because Pink Floyd at their peak were greater than the sum of their parts.
Gilmour contributes sublime guitar and vocals, Mason endlessly inventive drumming and the late Richard Wright some of rock’s most memorable keyboard passages.
“I think Roger sees the album as the point he began to march off to do his own thing,” says Mason. “But he would concede that it was a group project.”
If Waters became an autocratic songwriter by the time of his later Floyd albums such as Animals and The Wall, the deep themes explored on Dark Side have a more democratic origin.
Mason continues: “I don’t want to make it sound as if I’m trying for extra points but there was a band meeting at which it was decided to tackle these subjects.
“We didn’t want to do, ‘Gotta get you, babe’, which was what nearly everyone else was doing!
“So Roger went off [to write the lyrics] after we’d agreed on this.”
By any stretch, he returned with something quite extraordinary . . . the words to Breathe (In The Air), Time, Money, Us And Them and Brain Damage among rock’s most compelling.
Mason says: “It is extraordinary that Roger wrote lyrics that were as relevant to a 60-year-old as they were to him as a 29-year-old.”
How on earth did he do it? I venture. “Well, you can try asking him to see if you can get any sense out of him, if you’re brave enough!” comes the answer.
Confirming that he recently received a copy of Waters’ freshly recorded revision of Dark Side, Mason adds: “There’s been a lot of rumour about it, suggesting Roger means it to be a spoiler of the original. I’ve only run through it once but I’ve immediately connected with it and think that it is a really great add-on to what we did 50 years ago.
“It’s just terrific, not a spoiler at all. There are slight developments in the lyrics, which make perfect sense to me.”
Waters has devised extra spoken-word elements, including for the previously instrumental-only On The Run and Any Colour You Like.
He’s also dropped guitar solos to place greater emphasis on the album’s “political and emotional message”.
“I love the idea of a piece of work being re-engineered,” says Mason, continuing his endorsement.
“This explains my slight disapproval of tribute bands spending so much time trying to recreate what was there before.
“You’re never more than 50 metres away from someone who can play the Comfortably Numb guitar solo!”
As for Waters, he thought the reboot idea was “f***ing mad” before deciding to take it on.
He writes on his website: “It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable.
“But it is a way for the 79-year-old man to look back across the intervening 50 years into the eyes of the 29-year-old.
“And it is also a way for me to honour a recording that Nick and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of.”
I ask Mason if he realised back in 1973 that Pink Floyd had come up with a special eighth studio album.
“We came from an era in which no one thought any piece of rock music would last longer than a couple of weeks,” he answers.
“But I have to say, thinking of 50 years, Dark Side sounds so fresh.
“We did think it was really good, the best thing we’d done so far,” he recalls. “But it was beyond our imaginations to think it could run and run.
“At that stage, we hadn’t cracked America and there was no expectation that this would do it.”
Of course, the album’s jaw-dropping sales show that it was a huge hit around the globe, including The States, and still is.
By my latest estimate, Dark Side has sold at least 50million copies worldwide (based on the official 2013 figure of 45million) and is currently 15 times platinum in the UK.
Despite its coherent feel, the album endured a fragmented creation, as Mason explains.
“We would record for three weeks, then go on tour, then have a holiday and then go back into the studio. It was a bits and pieces approach.
“We also played the songs live, particularly something like On The Run, in order to develop them.”
Crucial to Dark Side’s success was that The Beatles’ second home, Abbey Road, also became Pink Floyd’s musical playground.
The luminous percussion at the start of Time was enabled, says Mason, “because someone left rototoms (shell-less, rotating drums) in the studio. I thought, ‘Yeah, let’s have a go at these.’”
He also praises engineer Alan Parsons and mix supervisor Chris Thomas who were “not old school but of a new breed”.
And, of course, we mustn’t forget the simple but strikingly effective cover design by Hipgnosis artist Storm Thorgerson.
Mason says: “Storm and Co came down to the studio to show us a few ideas they could develop. Everyone spotted the prism and said, ‘That one!’ It was agreed there and then.”
Another aspect of Dark Side indelibly etched into the minds of those who hear it is the sound effects — heartbeats, jangling money, clocks, disembodied voices.
“With the heartbeat, we tried using a stethoscope but peoples’ heartbeats are far too fast,” says Mason.
“We wanted it to be more measured but generally you’d need a cardiologist if you were beating at that rate.
“So the sound you hear is a soft beater on the bass drum, my finest moment — I’m ready for the award ceremony now!”
‘Macca too distinctive’
Mason maintains it was he who assembled the bracelet of pre-decimal coins, now a museum exhibit, to be heard on Money — despite a counter-claim from Waters.
“Well, Roger and I discuss this at length, almost every time we meet, but I definitely made it, yes!”
To get the snippets of voices, Pink Floyd asked random people questions like, “What is the dark side of the moon? Are you mad? When did you last hit someone?” Among them, reports Mason, were Paul and Linda McCartney who were recording the Wings album Red Rose Speedway in Abbey Road’s Studio 2.
“But they were too distinctive. We didn’t want people to pick up on a celebrity element.
“Interestingly enough, Henry McCullough (Wings guitarist) and his wife were used on our record.”
Next Mason turns to Gilmour and Wright’s significant contributions to Dark Side.
“David had terrific guitar parts and did some terrific singing — he can pitch beautifully.
“And Rick produced all sorts of extraordinary things in his unusual, unique style. If there is an unsung hero, he’s it.”
I suggest that Wright was “probably the quiet one” in Pink Floyd. “Probably is not the right word — he was absolutely snowed under by Roger and David, Roger in particular,” says Mason, correcting me.
Wright wrote The Great Gig In The Sky, matching his gorgeous piano and organ parts to Clare Torry’s full-throated wails.
“Clare was more classical than session singer. It was all done with three or four passes in one session.”
So does Mason have a favourite Dark Side track? “Probably the intro to Breathe,” he replies. “That lazy drum thing and then Dave’s vocal coming in. It sets the scene for me.
“And Money’s interesting to play. There’s something about the way it swings into action that I really like.”
As we speak, Mason’s in between legs of the Echoes Tour by his band Saucerful Of Secrets, which plays early Pink Floyd.
He says of the outfit he formed in 2018: “Not that it’s better than being in Pink Floyd, but it has so many of the qualities I loved about what we did in the early years.
“It was total deja-vu when we went on stage for the first time, like being in a time machine to 1967.
“We’ve done about 80 or 90 shows and we’re not stagnating but still developing.
“I intend to avoid the trap of finding myself playing Comfortably Numb!”
Finally, Mason returns to The Dark Side Of The Moon, 50 years in orbit and still resonating: “It’s humbling when people tell you how important the album is to them.
“I’m only sorry I won’t be here for the 200th anniversary . . . unless they make a medical breakthrough!”
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once but I’ve immediately connected with it and think that it is a really great add-on to what we did 50 years ago.
“It’s just terrific, not a spoiler at all. There are slight developments in the lyrics, which make perfect sense to me.”
Waters has devised extra spoken-word elements, including for the previously instrumental-only On The Run and Any Colour You Like.
He’s also dropped guitar solos to place greater emphasis on the album’s “political and emotional message”.
“I love the idea of a piece of work being re-engineered,” says Mason, continuing his endorsement.
“This explains my slight disapproval of tribute bands spending so much time trying to recreate what was there before.
“You’re never more than 50 metres away from someone who can play the Comfortably Numb guitar solo!”
As for Waters, he thought the reboot idea was “f***ing mad” before deciding to take it on.
He writes on his website: “It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable.
“But it is a way for the 79-year-old man to look back across the intervening 50 years into the eyes of the 29-year-old.
“And it is also a way for me to honour a recording that Nick and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of.”
I ask Mason if he realised back in 1973 that Pink Floyd had come up with a special eighth studio album.
“We came from an era in which no one thought any piece of rock music would last longer than a couple of weeks,” he answers.
“But I have to say, thinking of 50 years, Dark Side sounds so fresh.
“We did think it was really good, the best thing we’d done so far,” he recalls. “But it was beyond our imaginations to think it could run and run.
“At that stage, we hadn’t cracked America and there was no expectation that this would do it.”
Of course, the album’s jaw-dropping sales show that it was a huge hit around the globe, including The States, and still is.
By my latest estimate, Dark Side has sold at least 50million copies worldwide (based on the official 2013 figure of 45million) and is currently 15 times platinum in the UK.
Despite its coherent feel, the album endured a fragmented creation, as Mason explains.
“We would record for three weeks, then go on tour, then have a holiday and then go back into the studio. It was a bits and pieces approach.
“We also played the songs live, particularly something like On The Run, in order to develop them.”
Crucial to Dark Side’s success was that The Beatles’ second home, Abbey Road, also became Pink Floyd’s musical playground.
The luminous percussion at the start of Time was enabled, says Mason, “because someone left rototoms (shell-less, rotating drums) in the studio. I thought, ‘Yeah, let’s have a go at these.’”
He also praises engineer Alan Parsons and mix supervisor Chris Thomas who were “not old school but of a new breed”.
And, of course, we mustn’t forget the simple but strikingly effective cover design by Hipgnosis artist Storm Thorgerson.
Mason says: “Storm and Co came down to the studio to show us a few ideas they could develop. Everyone spotted the prism and said, ‘That one!’ It was agreed there and then.”
Another aspect of Dark Side indelibly etched into the minds of those who hear it is the sound effects — heartbeats, jangling money, clocks, disembodied voices.
“With the heartbeat, we tried using a stethoscope but peoples’ heartbeats are far too fast,” says Mason.
“We wanted it to be more measured but generally you’d need a cardiologist if you were beating at that rate.
“So the sound you hear is a soft beater on the bass drum, my finest moment — I’m ready for the award ceremony now!”
‘Macca too distinctive’
Mason maintains it was he who assembled the bracelet of pre-decimal coins, now a museum exhibit, to be heard on Money — despite a counter-claim from Waters.
“Well, Roger and I discuss this at length, almost every time we meet, but I definitely made it, yes!”
To get the snippets of voices, Pink Floyd asked random people questions like, “What is the dark side of the moon? Are you mad? When did you last hit someone?” Among them, reports Mason, were Paul and Linda McCartney who were recording the Wings album Red Rose Speedway in Abbey Road’s Studio 2.
“But they were too distinctive. We didn’t want people to pick up on a celebrity element.
“Interestingly enough, Henry McCullough (Wings guitarist) and his wife were used on our record.”
Next Mason turns to Gilmour and Wright’s significant contributions to Dark Side.
“David had terrific guitar parts and did some terrific singing — he can pitch beautifully.
“And Rick produced all sorts of extraordinary things in his unusual, unique style. If there is an unsung hero, he’s it.”
When asked if the band has unfinished business, he replies: ‘You never know what will be thrown up’[/caption]
Roger Waters, right, and David Gilmour, front, whose decades-long feud has reached new levels of bitterness[/caption]
Pink Floyd pose for a portrait shrouded in pink in August 1968[/caption]
I suggest that Wright was “probably the quiet one” in Pink Floyd. “Probably is not the right word — he was absolutely snowed under by Roger and David, Roger in particular,” says Mason, correcting me.
Wright wrote The Great Gig In The Sky, matching his gorgeous piano and organ parts to Clare Torry’s full-throated wails.
“Clare was more classical than session singer. It was all done with three or four passes in one session.”
So does Mason have a favourite Dark Side track? “Probably the intro to Breathe,” he replies. “That lazy drum thing and then Dave’s vocal coming in. It sets the scene for me.
“And Money’s interesting to play. There’s something about the way it swings into action that I really like.”
As we speak, Mason’s in between legs of the Echoes Tour by his band Saucerful Of Secrets, which plays early Pink Floyd.
He says of the outfit he formed in 2018: “Not that it’s better than being in Pink Floyd, but it has so many of the qualities I loved about what we did in the early years.
“It was total deja-vu when we went on stage for the first time, like being in a time machine to 1967.
“We’ve done about 80 or 90 shows and we’re not stagnating but still developing.
“I intend to avoid the trap of finding myself playing Comfortably Numb!”
Finally, Mason returns to The Dark Side Of The Moon, 50 years in orbit and still resonating: “It’s humbling when people tell you how important the album is to them.
“I’m only sorry I won’t be here for the 200th anniversary . . . unless they make a medical breakthrough!”
PINK FLOYD
The Dark Side Of The Moon
(50th Anniversary Edition)
★★★★★
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