Using ellipsis (omission) with verbs? [duplicate]

I want to know if a sentence like this is possible: "After leaving school, John became a barrister, Alex a judge and Mark a writer." In the last two instances, "became" is omitted to avoid unsightly repetition. But it is grammatically correct to omit verbs in cases like these? Most of the examples I can find online deal with parallel constructions rather than list-like examples like these.

Any help much appreciated, thanks!

Solution 1:

After leaving school, John became a barrister, Alex a judge and Mark a writer.

I'm not sure why people are answering in the comments. I will give an actual answer.

The sentence is grammatically perfect.

It is very odd with regard to meaning. Of course they became these things after leaving school. They could not have done it beforehand! That makes the first clause completely redundant.