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  • Dan Akroyd was a mail sorter for Canada’s national postal service.
  • Jennifer Aniston was both a telemarketer and waitress before hitting it big.
  • Halle Berry worked at Higbee’s Department store in the children’s department.
  • Sandra Bullock worked as a bartender.
  • Before his big break, country singer Kenny Chesney worked as a valet attendant, telemarketer and mail sorter.
  • Chubby Checker plucked chickens at a poultry market named Henry Colt’s.
  • Before Nirvana, the late Kurt Cobain worked as a janitor for Lemons Janitorial Service.
  • Diddy was an intern at Uptown Records where he did grunt work like washing cars & fetching coffee.
  • Bill Cosby shined shoes and sold produce when he was young.
  • Simon Cowell started out as a mail room clerk for EMI Music Publishing where his father worked.
  • Michael Dell washed dishes at a Chinese restaurant for $2.30 per hour.
  • Danny DeVito was a formally trained hair stylist before his break on Taxi.
  • Michael Douglas once worked as a gas station attendant.
  • Tom Hanks once worked as a hotel bellman and carried bags for a number of celebs.

[via Mike Dillard's Newsletter]

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Written by Greg Moreno

March 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

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