 She worked in several odd jobs through the years, and she eventually relocated to Baltimore, Maryland where she worked as a barmaid at Pete's Hotel.Filmmaker John Waters met Massey while she was working at Pete's Hotel in 1969 and offered her a role as herself in the film "Multiple Maniacs".In the early 1970s, she quit her job at Pete's and opened a thrift store called Edith's Shopping Bag in the Fell's Point area of Baltimore.