sam pearce , 24 , of milton , massachusetts , came to new york city to peruse a career in education , and soon after arriving in the big apple he landed a job teaching english to eighth graders in brooklyn , new york .
but just a few months after landing the job , the six-foot , green-eyed brown university graduate was ` discovered ' on the subway by another model , who promptly asked whether he could send mr. pearce 's picture to his own modeling agency in the hopes of getting him signed up .