By Nick A. Zaino III Globe Correspondent,April 24, 2019
Before Tom Segura was selling out shows, like most of his run at the Wilbur and the Chevalier theaters this weekend, before he had a hit podcast and Netflix specials or got recognized at the airport, he might have been the guy who showed you your apartment in Boston. When he graduated college in 2001, a friend lured Segura to town with the promise of a good payday as a real estate agent.
“I went up there,” he says, speaking by phone from Los Angeles, “took the real estate exam, failed, took it again, passed one half of it, took it a third time, and the guy at the real estate office was like, ‘Dude, if you don’t pass it right now I’m not hiring you.’ ”
The third time was the charm. “I did it for a few months, and it was actually fun and easy money, man,” he says. But “I was listening to that voice in me that was wanting to be a performer. That really taught me something, because I was out of college and I probably made $15,000 in two months. If you’re right out of college, you’re like, ‘Oh my God, this is a lot of money.’ Even with that money I was like, I don’t want to do this.”
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Comic Tom Segura had a passion, and it wasn’t showing apartments in Boston