DJ Jon Gosselin moves up in the DJ world with lucrative Harrah’s Atlantic City gig

Jon Gosselin's newfound DJ career may have gotten off to a rough start early last month, but thanks to a newly booked gig at Harrah's Atlantic City, things are looking up — to the tune of $20,000 or so.

Harrah's Pool After Dark has booked the former reality star for a May 30 appearance that reportedly will net Gosselin $20,000 for just an hour of DJ work, plus a meet-and-greet afterward. Which, of course, sure beats playing New Jersey bowling alleys and Reading bars, as Gosselin has been wont to do.

"I'm really excited about all of this," Gosselin, 38, recently told People magazine of the AC gig. "I like to meet people. All the fans that watched my show when they were 16 years old are now 21, and now they're in clubs and now they can interact and talk with me."

For comparison, Tiesto, the world's highest-paid DJ, pulls in roughly $250,000 a night.

The upcoming AC gig will be Gosselin's largest to date, and it also includes an opening act in his longtime friend, DJ Koolie Kirk. Gosselin reportedly attributes much of his DJing knowledge to Kirk's instruction.

Gosselin, for his part in all this, seems to hope the gig will serve as a jumping off point to kickstart his newfound career.

"I don't know what's going to happen after May 30," he told People. "If a lot of people show up and they see there's a following, someone else might want to latch onto that like Tropicana or Sands or Borgata — or even Vegas."

And for Gosselin, that would be helpful. In February, a judge ordered that Gosselin must pay Securus, a former employer, more than $1 million in a suit which alleged that he promoted a similar product for a competitor during his time with the company.

Prior to his current path as a DJ, Gosselin previously worked as a solar panel installer, app developer, and waiter. But that doesn't seem to bother him.

"When you have a business plan and it doesn't work, you're like, 'Oh, well,'" he said via People. "When you have one that does work you're like, 'Holy cow. It's too good to be true.'"

[People]