Megan Rox loved working in healthcare. Looking after patients as a palliative care assistant she felt she was "giving back" to others.
But when the pandemic struck she found the work caring for those who were dying or had life limiting conditions was a daily struggle. With strict self-isolation rules meaning they could not see their families she found it so hard she would go home and go straight to sleep to block it out.
Then she received a message which was to change her life. Going on her Instagram account she found a job offer from Babestation, the UK sex chat phoneline, TV channel and website brand.
And a year down the line she says she has no regrets and is loving the life which has given her a "fresh start". Now, instead of caring for patients, she spends her time working as a glamour model for the channel, reports the Daily Star.
Megan, now 26, was just 19 when she began working in healthcare. So her new job of teasing callers on live TV came as a bit of a "shock" to her family.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Star, the Birmingham model said: “It has literally been life-changing. It has changed my life for the better, I can’t deny that. Mentally I was in such a bad place and now I feel like a whole new person again.”
Before palliative care Megan shifted in nightclubs - but she said becoming a healthcare worker was her way of “giving back”. But asked what her job was like at the height of Covid-19, she gave a candid response.
“I don’t know how I got through it,” she began. “It was very hard and I would get home, have a shower, curl into bed and I had to go to sleep straight away just to block it all out. It was an awful time.
“After a while I couldn’t take it any more. It was awful because visitors couldn’t come in and see their families and it was a palliative care unit so it was a very tough time.”
Reflecting on the career more generally, she said: “It was very, very intense and I worked there for five years. You see all sorts there and it is a bit of an eye opener to be honest and I was quite young when I started there.
“It really matured me in a way. I do miss a few of the residents I looked after. I was there almost every day and it was like a family so not going in there now is sad.”
But when Babestation suddenly came knocking, Megan was already on the hunt for a new job. Her initial thoughts were ‘let’s give it a shot’ after reading the surprising job offer in her DMs.
But as for her family’s reaction, she said: “They were obviously a bit shocked because they thought I would stick to healthcare. My friends were a bit more like ‘go for it’ because they could see how drained I was during the pandemic and I needed a fresh start.”
And she said there were no comparisons between the two contrasting roles. “It is literally the polar opposite to what I used to do,” she laughed.
"I had to get used to working on a computer and being on TV. It was a crazy change but I got used to it in the end and I feel like I know what I’m doing now.”
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