First Jobs of Billionaires
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 00:35 IST   |    1 Comments
Printer Print Email Email
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey has an impression of getting richer with everything she does. She started off her career with a petty job at the grocery story close to her father's barbershop in Nashville, Tenn. Winfrey claimed the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant, at age 17. WVOL hired her to do the news part-time. She worked there in high school, and while her first two years of college. As a child she played games interviewing her doll and birds on the fence. She turned out to be both the first black female news anchor and the youngest news anchor and at Nashville's WLAC-TV. In 1976 she shifted to Baltimore's WJZ-TV to co-anchor the six o'clock news. She was then employed in Richard Sher as co-host of WJZ's local talk show People Are Talking, which premiered on August 14, 1978. She also hosted the local version of Dialing for Dollars. Today he owns net worth of $2.7 billion.

siliconindia