Celebrities’ unusual jobs before becoming famous

We know them as Hollywood stars, TV personalities, popular singers or rock legends but celebrities are just people like you and me. Now they have everything – fame, fortune and devoted fans almost in every part of the world – but when they were just starting their careers and going from one casting to another, from one audition to another trying to do everything to live their dream, they had to earn money to survive and that’s the unusual jobs celebrities had before becoming famous.

Right after high school actor Matthew McConaughey decided he didn’t want to go to collage, so he spent a year shoveling chicken manure in Australia where he lived then as an exchange student.

Before pursuing her acting goals Whoopi Goldberg worked as a bricklayer and a bank teller. Can you imagine Whoopi laying bricks? I can’t.

Singer and MAC Cosmetics activist/ spokesperson Cyndi Lauper used to clean out dog kennels before she became famous. Her other jobs also included an ear-piercer, a singing waitress in a Japanese piano bar, a salesclerk in a vintage clothing store, and some others.

Comedian and TV personality Jon Stewart used to work as a puppeteer. He would perform for children with disabilities.

Fellow TV personality Ellen DeGeneres once worked as an oyster shucker.

Mom-to-be Mariah Carey‘s first job was a hat checker. She was fired from that job, by the way.

Sean P Diddy Combs started his working career as an intern at Uptown Records. His job was to bring coffee and wash cars.

Before hitting it big, actor Steve Buscemi (love him in Interview with Sienna Miller!) would work as a New York City Fireman.

Did you guys know that before getting behind the camera of such movies as Terminator, Titanic, Avatar and Sanctum, James Cameron worked as a school bus driver? Well, at least now you know.

When Gossip Girl‘s Chace Crawford just moved to LA he worked as a parking valet.

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