An intern has quit her job at a top asset management firm in Wall Street to become a porn star.

Paige A Jennings, who moonlights under the name of 'Veronica Vain', left Lazard Asset Management last week after she posted online nude selfies from inside the bathroom of the company's offices.

On Twitter she said "quit [Wall Street] before it fired me".

The 23-year-old received an awkward phone call from her boss asking her to leave after half of the company had viewed the photos. The pictures were later taken down from her account but screenshots of them remained on NewsCult website, which first reported them.

However, in an interview with Bro Bible she said she did not expect her co-workers to come across the photos as her name was not attached to them.

"My boss's boss called me over the phone with an HR lady. I had a pretty good reputation intellectually, and this executive was aware of that. However, he obviously couldn't have me coming back to the office when likely just about everyone had seen me half naked online," she told BroBible.

According to Business Insider she worked part-time at the asset film between 2 June, 2014 and 9 January, 2015.

Proudly announcing her decision on Twitter, her status read: "I just left a job on Wall Street for a porn career because I can't stop masturbating at work."

She hopes her assets will help her break into the porn industry and has already made it to the final casting of X-rated internet show The Sex Factor which is set to be hosted by Duke University porn star Belle Knox.