Freelance writer Melissa Petro used to teach elementary school in New York City.
She truly, madly, and deeply loved her work.
Then, the press got hold of her work history in the sex industry.
After a headline about her read: 'Bronx Teacher Admits: I'm An Ex-Hooker," she was fired.
But according to Business Insider, Petro took that painful, humiliating experience and turned it into what she wanted all along: life as a writer.