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What do you do on weekends when you’re the daughter of an Oscar-winning actress? If you’re Eva Amurri Martino — daughter of Susan Sarandon — you work at a local toy store.
On Friday afternoons and weekends during high school, Martino worked at a mom-and-pop toy shop in New York City, wrapping gifts and helping customers select the perfect item. “Working in retail is tough, but I loved it,” she told Yahoo Finance’s Jen Rogers during an interview for the series My Three Cents.. “My favorite was when people would come in and say, ‘I have to buy a present for a 4-year-old boy.’ And then I would get to help them pick out these gifts.”
To this day, Martino says it’s one of her best jobs ever. “It's always been important to me and it's always been really gratifying to me to really put the work in,” she says. “Whenever I did any job, I always wanted to do my best possible job at that.”
Today, Martino runs her own motherhood and lifestyle brand called ‘Happily Eva After’. She launched it shortly after her first child was born. “It was exhausting,” she recalled. “I had a teeny tiny baby. I was up (working) until 4 in the morning some nights, and I would wake up at 7 with her. It was really a bootstrap operation.” Almost five years later, it’s grown into her all-time favorite job -- for her, far better than acting which she did in her teens and twenties.
As for her worst job, Martino is quick to name one that sounds glamorous from the outside: a brief stint as a production assistant on the movie ‘Mission to Mars’, when she was just 14 or 15 years old. “My roles included locations lock-up, which is basically begging people who are crossing a public street not to cross it while they're filming, which is really ineffective for a 14-year-old girl,” she said laughing.
And there was one more responsibility to that grunt job: “I would make Jerry O'Connell lattes to bring to set, which actually, maybe that was the best part of my job. Maybe that was the best job I ever had.”
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On Friday afternoons and weekends during high school, Martino worked at a mom-and-pop toy shop in New York City, wrapping gifts and helping customers select the perfect item. “Working in retail is tough, but I loved it,” she told Yahoo Finance’s Jen Rogers during an interview for the series My Three Cents.. “My favorite was when people would come in and say, ‘I have to buy a present for a 4-year-old boy.’ And then I would get to help them pick out these gifts.”
To this day, Martino says it’s one of her best jobs ever. “It's always been important to me and it's always been really gratifying to me to really put the work in,” she says. “Whenever I did any job, I always wanted to do my best possible job at that.”
Today, Martino runs her own motherhood and lifestyle brand called ‘Happily Eva After’. She launched it shortly after her first child was born. “It was exhausting,” she recalled. “I had a teeny tiny baby. I was up (working) until 4 in the morning some nights, and I would wake up at 7 with her. It was really a bootstrap operation.” Almost five years later, it’s grown into her all-time favorite job -- for her, far better than acting which she did in her teens and twenties.
As for her worst job, Martino is quick to name one that sounds glamorous from the outside: a brief stint as a production assistant on the movie ‘Mission to Mars’, when she was just 14 or 15 years old. “My roles included locations lock-up, which is basically begging people who are crossing a public street not to cross it while they're filming, which is really ineffective for a 14-year-old girl,” she said laughing.
And there was one more responsibility to that grunt job: “I would make Jerry O'Connell lattes to bring to set, which actually, maybe that was the best part of my job. Maybe that was the best job I ever had.”
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