Past jobs of Famous people

Rod Stewart, the grave digger.
Rod Stewart is the youngest of five children and was born in Highgate, North London to parents who owned a newsagents shop there. Minutes before Stewart was born, a German V-2 rocket scored a direct hit on Highgate Police Station just down the street. Rod Stewart had trials with the football clubs Celtic, and Brentford (based in West London). He then worked as a grave digger. He soon switched to a career in music joining folk singer Wizz Jones in the early 1960s as a street singer travelling around Europe; this resulted in his being deported from Spain for vagrancy.

Oprah Winfrey, the young reporter.
Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to a Baptist family. Her parents were unmarried teenagers. Winfrey's grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to recite Bible verses. Winfrey was self-helping her way to the top long before the world ever heard of Dr. Phil. Arriving at a radio station to collect a watch she had won through a promotional contest, a 16-year-old Winfrey read for producers and secured herself a spot as an on-air reporter earning $100 per week.

Hitler, the postcard painter.
As a child, Adolf Hitler attended a monastery school and harbored dreams of becoming a priest, but he dropped out after his father’s death in 1903. By then, Hitler had a new career in mind: professional artist. And though the Führer’s precise but emotionless landscapes showed moderate promise, he was rejected twice from Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts. Bitter, poor, and lonely, young Adolf moved between boardinghouses and hostels, earning a meager living painting postcards. Oddly enough, he might have been just another failed artist had it not been for World War I. Turning in his paintbrush for a pistol, Hitler volunteered as a runner for the German army. Turns out he enjoyed that world war so much that, a few decades later, he decided to start another one.

Sylvester Stalone, the lion cage cleaner.
Sylvester Stalone, always the tough guy, was once employed as a lion cage cleaner. At fifteen, his classmates voted him the one "most likely to end up in the electric chair." In the 1960s, Stallone attended the University of Miami for three years. He came within a few credit hours of graduation, before he decided to drop out and pursue an acting career. Stallone's career began with the leading role, Stud, in a hard-core pornographic film called Party at Kitty and Stud's. The film was originally hard core and depicted sexual acts, but after Stallone's later success, the film was re-cut to soft-core and re-packaged as Italian Stallion (a reference to Rocky Balboa's nickname). The hardcore footage is apparently lost.

Jennifer Lopez, the Legal Assistant.
Long before Jennifer Lopez sang, danced and acted her way to superstardom, she briefly traded in her velour tracksuit for a suit of the pin-striped variety while working at a law office.

Others...

Bill Gates was a congressional page at the Washington state Capitol

William Watkins,
current CEO of Seagate Technology, worked the night shift at a mental hospital restraining people who got out of control

Sidney Kimmel,
founder and current chairman of Jones Apparel Group, was a shipping clerk for Morton Manufacturing.

Bill Murray stood outside a grocery store selling chestnuts.

Rush Limbaugh shined shoes.

Robin Williams performed as a street mime.

When no stores were interested in carrying his jeans, designer Tommy Hilfiger sold them to buyers from the trunk of his car.

Jerry Seinfeld sold light bulbs by phone.

Demi Moore worked for a debt collection agency.

Van Halen's David Lee Roth fluffed pillows and emptied bedpans as a hospital orderly.

Madonna worked behind the counter at Dunkin' Donuts.

Jennifer Aniston was a waitress.

Brad Pitt moved refrigerators.

Just months before setting world records in country music, Garth Brooks was a salesman in a boot store.

Actor Jack Nicholson was "discovered" while working in the mailroom at MGM.

Author Stephen King,
who was a janitor, was cleaning the girls' locker room when he became inspired to write the novel "Carrie."