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Magnotta first worked in the sandwich restaurant, but only lasted for 2 months due to complaints of his sandwich making. His mental illness made it difficult for him to work, including when he often stayed up late the night and the stress led him to quit jobs many times. Magnotta, who was 18 at that time, worked at a grocery store for less than a month before being fired. He worked at a Great Canadian Bagel restaurant until he quit again because he had too much stress for him to continue working. Magnotta also said that he was on "welfare and then began receiving Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) payments" at the age of 18 or 19 due to mental health issues. Magnotta had moved a few cities in his twenties, moving to New York city in 2008 before returning to Toronto in 2010.

In his early 20s, Magnotta first began working in the sex trade. From that moment, he believed that he was bisexual at one point. While living at subsidized housing, Magnotta felt motivated and sometimes had "financial difficulties". He also had to steal food at times, but was ashamed of it. Magnotta had been taken to food banks by his social worker because he "could not make ends meet". Magnotta started on webcams where he showed himself taking off clothes on camera, but didn't continue as much because there were too many "crazy people." He then began as a stripper at the Toronto gay club called "Remmington", but was scared to go on stage at first. Magnotta also did a fellatio on the owner of the club and was given drinks and a job in return. At that time, Magnotta did not believe he was good at it, and he compared himself negatively to other strippers who were much more muscular than him. He stopped working at the club after two months, because he was making too much money and had to pay everyone who are in. One of the other strippers at his club suggested that he should start escorting because he felt uncomfortable with the drug addicts in the club, and so he did and moved on.

Magnotta made about "$1000 to $2000" per week and his agent would take a "20% cut of his earnings". He used his earnings as an escort to help his grandmother because she was living on a small pension. He gave her 100 dollars and once gave her 1000 dollars, but she did not want the money and returned it back to him; sometimes she would say that she did need the money and Magnotta would give it to her anyway. Besides his grandmother, Magnotta would also use his earnings to help his family. Magnotta once took his mother with him to the Bahamas in 2005, and it was her first ever vacation. Rich clients would also even offer Magnotta some drugs and alcohol, but he often refused and accepted at some time. Over the course of having this much money, Magnotta felt dirty, took more of prescription pills, felt suicidal, and often had STDs. He also added that he was exposed to dangerous people, and sometimes raped (see below text). His clients took him to vacation so he could feel comfortable.

Later on, Magnotta had met an escort transgender woman named Barbie through Natter, when he was living at Toronto in 2006. Magnotta and Barbie have done sex together a few times, but he felt uncomfortable for most of the time as she has an addiction to cocaine and go to bars where he had stripped in the past. Barbie would laugh at him when he is unable to erect and would complain if he refused to have sex with her. Magnotta also wooed her to watch Basic Instinct 2, a sequel of his favorite film, where a man gets fatally stabbed with an icepick which later inspires his 2012 murder video [[1 Lunatic 2 Icepick]]. The relationship lasted four months.