CEOs who had weird jobs: Some of the CEOs we know were born into rich families, and all they had to do was inherit their family fortune. Then there are those CEOs who weren’t lucky enough to be born into rich families but knew from an early age that they would be rich and successful.
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These CEOs have certain traits that distinguish them from the rest, traits were quite clear from when they were young. They were hard working, innovative and they methodically plodded their way up the ladder.
When starting out, some of these CEOs did some things that were completely different from what they do today. Some started out selling newspapers and others began their careers by selling illegal software to help people hack telephone systems. Some CEOs, however, knew what they would one day become, and they have stuck to it until today.
Take Bill Gates for example. When he was in 8th grade, he took an interest in programming and wrote his first computer program on a machine bought with proceeds from the Mother’s Club at his school.
He spent a lot of time around computers and his current job today still involves computers. So let’s take a look at some of the weird jobs famous CEOs had before they became successful.
11. Reed Hastings
Current Job: CEO Netflix
Weird Job: Door-to-Door Salesman
Can you believe Hastings worked as a door-to-door salesman after high school selling vacuum cleaners? And the funny thing is he loved the job. So much, in fact, that he decided to defer his enrolment to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine for a whole year just so that he could continue selling vacuum cleaners.
Well, Hastings clearly didn’t think selling vacuums was his destiny because he later founded Pure Software, a company that produced products to troubleshoot software. He left the company six years later and founded the now popular Netflix.
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