What heresy is this? Bro Code always counts!
"#289. If thou art bros, thou shalt settle thine shit one between the other. If thou shall ever cease being bros, thou shalt not become the town crier of sordid details. Thou shalt only make thee more womanly that thou didst suffer pains as a woman in travail yet did not strive valiantly whilst cruelly oppressed. Thou shalt lose thine man scroll for all eternity."
If I were to hazard a guess or two why Ashton didn't have a normal job I'd say first that at nearly 400 lbs any regular activity would be extremely exhausting for him and would most likely require a lot more breaks than your average person. If the job required a uniform, this is also a big problem for someone as tall and as wide as PPP. All told, Ashton was well on his way to being a shut-in, albeit a highly entertaining one. When taken together with the knowledge that he had managed to carve out a niche for himself in the relatively small world of internet bloodsports, he was aiming for a full grift-streamer lifestyle complete with merch.
But, who wouldn't? He had talent, why not put it to good use? The problem is he was not self-aware enough to see the high potential for bad optics once he got his right hand man upset enough. The will to dominate betrayed him in the end.