Schon was a front-desk employee at contemporary hit radio station WKRZ in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1989.[8] She then moved to the Washington, D.C., area getting a job at the make-up counter at Nordstrom at the Tysons Corner Mall in McLean, Virginia, for most of the 1990s.[9] In 2001 she was a make-up artist on the set of the "Lady Bird" episode of the PBS documentary series American Experience.[10]