 In 2003, John Cook, who coached Achon at George Mason, offered him a post as assistant coach with Alberto Salazar's Nike Oregon Project, pacing elite runners such as Galen Rupp, who competed at the Beijing Olympics.In 2010, budget cuts at Nike meant Achon lost his job but he began working part-time at the Nike store on campus instead.Achon started providing for children orphaned by the civil war in Uganda in 2003 when he discovered 11 orphans sheltering under a bus.