10 Shocking facts about Taylor Swift (With Pictures)

6. Her first job Was Debugging Christmas Trees

While Taylor Swift was already well on her way to becoming a superstar at a time when most teenagers are starting their first jobs, she didn’t miss out on the experience – she, like most teens, had a less-than-glamorous first job. As many know, Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania before her family made the move to Nashville to allow her to pursue her country music career, and it would seem that a young Taylor was entrusted with the task of debugging the Christmas trees for the buyers. As she describes, “We all had jobs. Mine was picking the praying mantis pods off of the trees, collecting them so that the bugs wouldn’t hatch inside people’s houses.”