 Following that were various appearances in Scottish professional and semi-professional theatre and TV.However, instead of pursuing that interest, chose a more lucrative path in sales, working between Dallas, Texas and London for US IT giant McAfee, but as he himself has stated, he was unhappy with his chosen career path and gave up his sales career and retrained at the LAMDA, graduating 2003.In 2003 Gordon began rehearsing his first professional lead role of The Master in Blanche MacIntyre’s "The Master and Margarita" at Greenwich Theatre at the same time he landed the comedy Odor-Eaters commercial which ran for two years.