Speaking about the nature of the work he did, Gippy recalled, “The first job I took was as a security guard. After that, there were days when I worked three jobs at once. In the mornings, my wife and I would deliver newspapers together. After that, she would leave for Subway, where she was a manager, and I would go to work as a construction worker. In the evenings, we got a contract to manage the cleaning of an entire mall.”

Elaborating further, he said, “We had to clean trays and tables in the food court, do mopping and toilet cleaning. Hearing it now may sound a certain way, but it was never bad work. We earned a lot of money from it.”

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Gippy Grewal had previously spoken about the same phase of his life during an appearance on Bharti TV. Looking back, he said that while people in India may have thought he was doing something extraordinary abroad, he was simply doing what was necessary to build a stable and comfortable life. “In other jobs, I would make 8 dollars an hour, but with the mall cleaning job, I earned nearly 13 dollars. When it came to delivering newspapers, my wife and I treated it as our time together. We would keep talking throughout the route and finish the work in about two hours,” he recalled.