10 Astoundingly Weird First Jobs of Famous People
The pope may still be sneaking out at night to comfort the homeless, but back in his youth he was into an entirely different kind of nightlife - serving as a bouncer for a Buenos Aires nightclub.
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The esteemed Fed chair was not always so dapper and polished – he once handed out margaritas and nachos as a waiter for the tacky Mexican-themed attraction South of the Border.
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Before the billionaire business magnate was appearing in papers, he was delivering them on his very own paper route during his high-school years in Washington, D.C.
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The 2012 GOP presidential candidate, businessman and former Massachusetts governor spent a brief period of his college years at Stanford driving passengers around as a chauffeur.
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Before he was scooping John McCain in the 2008 presidential polls, a young Barry was scooping chocolate and vanilla at a Baskin & Robbins in Honolulu.
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In the years before her support of UN sanctions against Iraq, the first female Secretary of State was offering an entirely different kind of support, selling bras at a Denver department store.
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The famously hot-headed conservative radio host spent his early teen years in Missouri inhaling shoe polish fumes as a shoeshine boy, which, some critics might argue, explains quite a lot.
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Everyone's favorite German Chancellor made some spare money in her college years by working as a barmaid, mixing drinks at her Leipzig university.
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This four-star general and former Secretary of State got his start selling cribs, carriages and other baby-related equipment at a store in the Bronx, N.Y., where he also learned Yiddish.
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The billionaire entrepreneur and now-outgoing New York City mayor once babysat cars in the Big Apple as a parking-lot attendant.
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