The first job of millionaires

The first job of millionaires

If you are discontent with your work, do not feel down! A lot of today's millionaires also did not start from job positions in the board of directors.

Do you want to know what jobs famous people started with in the early days of their career? Especially for you - our selection!

1. Jeffrey Bezos - the founder and owner of the largest online store Amazon.com started working at McDonalds as a teenager. During the summer holidays, the future billionaire earned money by making hamburgers. Interestingly, his father Mike started right there.
2. Reed Hastings - the Creator of Netflix - started his career as a sales agent. He went door-to-door selling vacuum cleaners. Not the most creative work indeed!
3. Oprah Winfrey – one of the most famous TV hosts in the world – while studying at Tennessee State University, worked part-time in a grocery store to pay for her university education.
4. Jan Koum - the co-founder of the WhatsApp messenger - worked as a janitor at a grocery store after school at the age of 16 to help his mother earn a living.
5. Michael Dell - the founder of DELL - began with washing dishes in the kitchen of a small Chinese restaurant at the age of 12. Later, he served water, and then worked as a busboy. Back then, he could not even dream of the success that he achieved later!
6. Marissa Ann Mayer - the president of the Internet giant Yahoo - chose the position of a cashier in a supermarket as her first place of work . It was probably at this point that she realized what the role of service speed in people's lives was.
7. Oleg Tinkov - the founder of "Tinkoff Bank" - worked part-time at a factory as a child: he ran errands, made boxes for mineral water. From the age of 18, he got a job in a mine, in a workshop for repairing electrical equipment, as an electrical fitter apprentice.
8. Michael Bloomberg - the mayor of New York and a businessman - earned money by parking cars in a parking lot while studying at university .
9. Indra Nooyi - the CEO of PepsiCo's board of directors - worked as a janitor in the dormitory of the college she studied at. She mixed business with pleasure ;)
10. Jack Ma - the founder of the Internet giant Alibaba Group - worked as an English teacher for just $12 a month when he was young. He learned English by giving free tours to foreigners who came to a hotel near his home.
11. Dmitriy Rybolovlev - the ex co-owner of "Uralkali" and President of AS Monaco football club - began his career when he was a 2nd year student of Perm Medical Institute working as an orderly in a cardiology department, and then became a nurse.

None of them today has any regrets about their experience. On the contrary, these people believe that the difficult first steps have hardened their character and laid foundation for further success. The main thing is to continue to develop and believe in your dream!