Rachel got her first job as a waitress at Central Perk. She turned out to be hopeless, taking long breaks to sit with her friends and regularly mixing up orders. In the third season, after encouragement from Joey and Chandler she quit her coffee shop job to enter a career in fashion, working as a personal assistant at Fortunata Fashions. Later on, she got a job as a personal shopper at Bloomingdale's with the help of colleague Mark. She then became a buyer at Ralph Lauren, where she memorably had an affair with her assistant, Tag Jones. In the final episodes of the last season, Rachel was fired from Ralph Lauren when her boss overheard her having a job interview with another company. She was then offered a lucrative job in Paris with Louis Vuitton by her ex-colleague Mark, and accepted, leading to Ross' anguish in the show's finale episode.