A young artist looking for work got distracted from the job hunt when she decided to learn to play the piano and harmonica at the same time.

Ottilie Cullen, 23, lives in the U.K. and has just returned from traveling the world, where she painted and hosted art lessons wherever she went.

Now back home, the reality of being unemployed began to set in and her mother advised her to start looking for jobs.

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But things went a little off course when she instead spent hours learning hit Billy Joel track “Piano Man,” even crafting a wire coat hanger into a contraption that let her play the harmonica hands-free.

Cullen has now gone viral as she showed off the moment her Mom learned how her daughter had spent the day, with a clip to her account @ottiliecullen boasting over 1.4 million views in just a few hours.

“My mum was definitely surprised, but I think she tried to hide that she liked it,” Cullen told Regalrumination.com. “First thing she said was, ‘You can’t even play a harmonica, where did you get that from?'”

In , captioned: “Showing my mum what I’ve been doing all day when I told her I’d be job hunting,” Cullen sits at a keyboard with the harmonica in her mouth, as her mom stands in the doorway looking confused.

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But as she launches into the song, first with the piano and then the harmonica, her mother comes into the room, looking both impressed and slightly concerned, as though she doesn’t believe Cullen is actually playing the instruments herself.

Cullen stops the video as she starts laughing looking at her mother’s reaction, and told Regalrumination.com: “She thinks I should be applying for jobs, but couldn’t argue that I’d been wasting my time.”

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TikTok users agreed wholeheartedly, with one user writing: “Proof that we are all our best selves when we aren’t tied to jobs.”

“A day well spent,” another said, as one commented: “I liked the moment where her smile appears. She couldn’t stop it.”

Others urged Cullen to play the video at any job interviews she gets, as she’ll be “hired on the spot”.

Her dream for now is to in Bath, similar to the painting classes she hosted while traveling.

“I want people to take little watercolor palettes around a paint with their mates in the outdoors,” she told Regalrumination.com, adding it’s “great for the soul and our mental well-being to keep”.

Cullen, who also posts to under the username @artilie_cullen, explained: “I started painting as a way to document my travels and send to my parents so they could see what I was doing, instead of photos.”

Fellow travelers she met while staying at hostels then became interested, and “I started my own class on the beach.”

Cullen only picked up the harmonica earlier that day, and learned the piano piece to the tune from the night before. So while she may not have been applying for jobs like her mother had hoped, she was training her brain in different ways, which can have benefits for years to come, according to a recent study published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Piano playing in particular was found to in old age.

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