Member-only story
It was 2018 when I joined the ‘Soho House Family’ or as I personally call it, ‘The House of Chaos’.
At the time I had just finished graduate school and was a broke international student from Canada that had spent the last £100 left in my Barclays account. Basically, I was broke, BROKE. My hunt for an internship/entry-level position in my field of study wasn’t as easy as I thought post graduation.
With my rent due sooner than later, I knew I had to jump into action. On a lazy Sunday morning, I hopped on my laptop and applied for any job that was nearest to my borough to pay the bills from waitressing to nannying.
When I saw an ad for a receptionist at Soho House (for privacy reasons I won’t mention which house I worked for) but a quick showed me some hipster dive bar looking club. What really sold me was when I saw that the pay was weekly, was in close distance to my flat, and had free staff meals. I blindly applied. It took less than a day to get a phone call from a woman from HR to ask me to come in for an interview. I did what I always do for interviews and researched everything I could find about the place’s mission statement, vision, and goals.
For those of you that live under a rock, Soho House was founded in London, in 1995, as a private members’ club for those in film, media, and creative industries. Since then the club has roughly 119,000 members and 30 clubs around the world, including houses across Europe, North America, and Asia as well as restaurants, cinemas, spas, workspaces, and hotels. For most people, Soho House is the exclusive place among creatives, celebs, socialites, and in major cities such as London, New York, and LA. Just check out its massive waiting list for membership at nearly 48,000 folks praying to get their black card to coolness, access to A-list events, and their meme famous house drink ‘picante’.
