5. Marissa Mayer
Current Job: President and CEO of Yahoo
Weird Job: Grocery Clerk
When Marissa Mayer was in high school, she worked as a grocery clerk. That’s where she learned that in order to be great at her job, she needed to learn how to work fast…as fast as scanning 40 items a minute.
She credits her participation in ballet and piano lessons for teaching her poise, confidence, criticism and discipline.
She attended Stanford University in 1999 and when she graduated, she received 14 job offers. She joined Google and became the company’s first female engineer.
Her attention to detail and hard work saw her rise in the ranks to become Google’s Vice President of Product Research. But in 2011, she was demoted.
In 2012, she was appointed President and CEO of Yahoo!
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