Friends: Every Job Rachel Had Across All 10 Seasons

Rachel Green went through a whole personal journey in Friends, and the best way to track her development is through her career – and here’s every job she had across all 10 seasons of Friends. Created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, Friends premiered on NBC in 1994 and came to an end in 2004 after 10 successful seasons, full of ups and downs, jokes, breakups, and truly memorable moments. Friends is still regarded as one of the best TV shows of all time, and its fanbase has recently expanded thanks to its arrival to the world of streaming.

Friends followed the lives of six young adults in New York City as they did their best to juggle their personal, social, and professional lives, showing that adulthood can be confusing and hard but also fun if you are surrounded by the right people. Over the course of 10 seasons, viewers got to know Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Ross quite well, and while they all went through changes throughout the series, the most evident development was that of Rachel (Jennifer Aniston).

Rachel was a key player in Friends, being the one who pretty much kickstarts the events of the series when she runs away from her wedding and moves in with Monica (Courteney Cox). Rachel’s development can be tracked through her different jobs, as they show how much she matured over the years. At the beginning of the series, Rachel was a spoiled girl who depended on her father or her fiancé, Barry, to pay for everything she wanted, so she was met with a huge reality check when she moved in with Monica and left Barry. Rachel’s first job, then, was as a waitress at Central Perk, and though she wasn’t the best at it, constantly messing up the orders, she kept this job until season 3, when she quit in order to pursue a career in fashion, as she had always wanted.

After struggling to find a new job when she had no experience in the field of her interest, she finally got a job as a personal assistant at Fortunata Fashions, which mostly consisted of pouring coffee for her boss. After that, and still in season 3, Rachel met Mark (Steven Eckholdt) at the 1950s themed diner where Monica worked at the time, and he helped her get a job at Bloomingdale’s. Rachel began working as an assistant buyer, but after her boss, Joanna, died, she was demoted to a personal shopper. It was during her time as a personal shopper that she met Joshua (Tate Donovan), which then led to Ross meeting Emily (Helen Baxendale). In season 5, she got an interview at Ralph Lauren and started working there as an executive, and this is the job she kept until the final season. In season 10, she was fired from Ralph Lauren after her boss found her at a restaurant interviewing for a job at Gucci, but Mark offered her a job at Louis Vuitton, but it required her to move to Paris.

In the end (and a very controversial one that still has viewers discussing it), Rachel left her dream of living and working in Paris aside in favor of staying in New York with Ross and their daughter, Emma, and it’s unknown what her next job was, as it seems highly unlikely that she became a stay-at-home mother. Rachel’s journey in Friends is an interesting one, which was ruined by her getting off the plane, but ultimately, that doesn’t invalidate everything she did in previous seasons.

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Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out great). Prior to Screen Rant, she wrote for Pop Wrapped, 4 Your Excitement (4YE), and D20Crit, where she was also a regular guest at Netfreaks podcast. She was also a contributor for FanSided’s BamSmackPow and 1428 Elm. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Every time she manages to commit to a TV show without getting bored, an angel gets its wings.

When she’s not writing, you can find her trying to learn a new language, watching hockey (go Avs!), or wondering what life would have been like had Pushing Daisies, Firefly, and Limitless not been cancelled. Breakfast food is life and coffee is what makes the world go round.

Guillermo del Toro said “hi” to her once. It was great.

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