1. Orlando Bloom’s first job was working at a skeet shooting range as a clay pigeon trapper when he was just 13.
2. Beyonce Knowles’ mother owned a salon when the future pop star was growing up, so the aspiring singer picked up some extra cash by sweeping up hair.
3. As a teenager
Mick Jagger worked as an ice cream salesman. After entering the
London School of Economics, Jagger also worked as a porter at a mental hospital.
4. Jagger wasn’t the only member of the band to have a gig before the Stones. Keith Richards worked as a ball boy at a tennis club.
5. It’s tough to envision Colin Powell as anything other than a general or diplomat, but when he was growing up in the Bronx, he worked in a baby furniture store. Powell even picked up a bit of Yiddish on the job since that was the preferred language of his employers.
6. Warren Buffett had cash going through his hands even as a young man; his first job was at his grandfather’s grocery store, although he eventually worked his way up to a gig at J.C. Penney.