After getting laid off from a corporate job, I started bartending — and it changed my approach to office work

Julie Levin

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• Julie Levin used bartending to reset her career after a 2023 marketing layoff.
• She said bartending taught her resilience, humility, and the value of a positive attitude at work.
• Levin has carried that approach to her new role at a business transformation firm.

After getting laid off in 2023, marketing veteran Julie Levin worked part time as a bartender for about six months as she considered her next steps. Levin is now the head of brand partnerships at Two Things...