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In Season Two, Joey continued his stage work, appearing as "The King" in a poorly reviewed (and never-named) play. Published reviews of his performance claimed he was "disturbingly unskilled" and that he achieved "brilliant new levels of sucking" in a "mediocre play" with "mindless, adolescent direction".<ref name="russ">{{Cite episode|title=The One with Russ|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= January 4, 1996|season=2|number=10}}</ref> Only days after these reviews came out, Joey gets his big break when he lands his first major role as Dr. Drake Ramoray on the soap opera ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', a real-life television show outside of the context of ''Friends'' which featured Jennifer Aniston's father [[John Aniston|John]]. In-universe, Joey had initially gone in to read for a one-shot role as a cab driver; it is implied that he got the recurring role of Ramoray by sleeping with the casting director.<ref name="russ"/> While still playing Ramoray, he also appears in a bit role as a dead man in the film ''Outbreak 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan'', starring [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]]. (Originally his character was only dying in the scene but due to Joey overacting, it was changed to him being already dead.)
Several episodes later, Joey costs himself the ''Days of our Lives'' gig when during an interview with ''[[Soap Opera Digest]]'', he radically overstates and claims he writes most of his own lines. This angers the show's writers, who out of spite, "kill off" his character by having Dr. Ramoray fall down an elevator shaft. Joey takes this
He goes back to stage acting in Season Three appearing in a play called ''Boxing Day'' opposite love interest [[Characters of Friends#Introduced in season three|Kate Miller]]. The play seems to start out as a conventional drama but ends with Joey's character "Victor" being taken from his apartment by aliens.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with the Screamer|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= April 24, 1997|season=3|number=22}}</ref> In Season Four, he lands a small one-scene movie role as a cop, playing his scene opposite [[Charlton Heston]].<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Joey's Dirty Day|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= February 5, 1998|season=4|number=14}}</ref>
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Joey had some bad luck in terms of his acting career. In Season Five, he is cast in the [[independent film]] ''Shutter Speed'', but it is shut down before filming began in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]].<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Joey's Big Break|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= May 11, 1998|season=5|number=22}}</ref> He was also fired from a [[Burger King]] commercial. He filmed a role in a ''[[Law & Order]]'' episode that was cut from the completed episode—Joey was only "seen" as a corpse in a [[body bag]].
In seasons 6 and 7, he lands a starring role as Detective 'Mac' Machiavelli in a
In Season 7, Joey auditions for the role of Dr. Striker Ramoray, a new character on "Days of Our Lives" and Drake Ramoray's brother, but he doesn't get that role. Eventually, Joey's luck turns when he gets back his role as Dr. Drake Ramoray and is even nominated for an award for Best Returning Character, first as a character in a coma,<ref name="assistant"/> then revived through a brain transplant with another character, Jessica Lockhart (played by [[Susan Sarandon]]).<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Joey's New Brain|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= February 15, 2001|season=7|number=15}}</ref>
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Later in season 7, Joey lands a supporting role as "Tony", a soldier, in a major film opposite an [[Academy Awards|Oscar-nominated]] actor named Richard Crosby ([[Gary Oldman]]). The film is a [[World War I]] [[period piece|period film]] entitled ''Over There''.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with Ross and Monica's Wedding|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= May 17, 2001|season=7|number=24}}</ref> Later Chandler accompanies Joey to the premiere of the film.
Joey is also briefly employed at [[Central Perk]] as a [[waiter]]. Facing a dry spell in his career as an actor, Joey is persuaded by [[Gunther (Friends character)|Gunther]], the manager, to take a job serving [[coffee]]. At first, Joey tries to hide his new job from his friends, but they eventually figure it out. He does not like the work but, true to his nature, soon finds a way to use his position to meet and ingratiate himself to attractive women by giving them free food, although Gunther quickly puts a stop to it. Joey doesn't take his job
Joey is also briefly a [[sperm donation|sperm donor]] for a medical experiment; at the end, the hospital would pay any donor $700. This was later mentioned when Monica goes to a sperm bank. Joey finds to his dismay that his sperm is not
Some of Joey's other jobs have included selling [[Christmas tree]]s, dressing as [[Santa Claus]] and as a [[Christmas elf]],<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The One with the Monkey|series=Friends|network=[[NBC]]|airdate= December 15, 1994|season=1|number=10}}</ref> working as a [[tour guide]] at the [[American Museum of Natural History|Museum of Natural History]] where Ross worked, offering [[perfume]] samples to customers at a [[department store]], and as a Roman warrior at [[Caesar's Palace]] in Las Vegas.
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Being a glutton when it comes to food, Joey is shown throughout the series to have the uncanny ability to eat enormous quantities of food. As he prides the Tribbiani family for their eating prowess ("We might not be [...] world leaders, but damn it, we can eat!"), he takes on Monica's challenge to eat a whole roast turkey virtually all by himself. In season 8, episode 9, Monica is unwilling to cook a whole roast turkey for Thanksgiving dinner as Rachel is pregnant, Chandler refuses to eat Thanksgiving food due to childhood traumas, Phoebe is a vegetarian, and dinner guest Will (played by [[Brad Pitt]]) is on a diet. Joey's love for Thanksgiving traditions, however, convinces Monica to roast the turkey only under the condition that Joey can eat the entire 19-pound bird in one sitting. When Monica sees him struggle, she says she is only kidding, but Joey perseveres and with a little help from Phoebe's maternity pants, he eventually not only consumes the entire turkey but has room for dessert afterward. A similar eating stunt happens in season 9, episode 5 when Joey is left alone at the dinner table in a restaurant after Phoebe's failed birthday dinner, and he is forced to eat six meals by himself. He finishes them, only to tuck them into the birthday cake afterward.
Joey is extremely promiscuous, often relying on his catchphrase pickup line "How ''you'' doin'?". He regularly sleeps with attractive women, but can never seem to get into a committed relationship – judging from a conversation he had with Chandler at the latter's bachelor party he seems to regard marriage as depressing and restrictive. He sleeps with many of the interns and extras on shows on which he works. He has apparently been sexually active for a
Despite his promiscuous nature towards many women throughout the series, he is highly protective and old-fashioned when it comes to the relationships of his own sisters. While he does not seem to have a problem with his own lifestyle, he repeatedly makes sure his sisters don't go down the same path. When he finds out in season 3, episode 11 that Chandler drunkenly made out with his sister Mary Angela, he attempts to force the two into a relationship. Later, in season 8, episode 10, Joey initially attempts to force his younger sister Dina into marriage with her hapless boyfriend upon hearing she's pregnant, but they play into his emotional nature by saying they want to raise the baby independently.
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