Bangalore: Did you ever imagine what these famous people were doing for a living, before they earn the fame? Some of their first jobs will surprise you. Hollywood’s action hero, “Rocky” famed Sylvester Stallone was a lion cage cleaner at a zoo, and there wouldn’t have been a second world war, if Hitler got selected into Fine Arts College. Read on to know what jobs these 10 famous people were doing before they became famous, as compiled by Wonderlist.

#1 Michael Dell, the diswasher.

Founder and chairman of Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, was a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant at the age 12, earning $2.30 an hour. He is grateful for his early experience: “The best part was the wisdom of the restaurant owner, which I could capture if I came to work a little early. He took great pride in his work and cared about every customer who came through his door.”

In a bid to enter business early, he applied to take a high school equivalency exam at age eight. In his early teens, he invested his earnings from part-time jobs in stocks and precious metals. Dell purchased his first calculator at age seven and encountered his first teletype machine in junior high, programming the latter after school. At age 15, after playing with computers at Radio Shack, he got his first computer, an Apple II, which he promptly disassembled to see how it worked. Dell attended Memorial High School in Houston, selling subscriptions to the Houston Post in the summer and while a freshman pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin, Dell started an informal business putting together and selling upgrade kits for personal computers in Room 2713 of the Dobie Center residential building.

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