Yesterday it was learned that one of the richest men in the world served McDonald's hamburgers on his 60th birthday as a sign of pride in his first job at the fast food chain when he was 16 years old. Jeff Bezos, the millionaire founder and CEO of Amazon, took advantage of his first job just as he evoked his first Amazon office in a garage for the decoration of one of the rooms of his Beverly Hills home where he celebrated the party.
C. Tangana did the opposite by revealing this week his bad work experience, before becoming famous, in a well-known sandwich chain where he worked as a clerk and handed out promotions at street level. That chain has suffered a boycott on social networks after the singer explained the precariousness of his position and warned that "if someone likes my music, they should not eat a Pans again."
There will be hundreds or thousands of diamonds in the rough to be discovered among the universe of precarious jobs. A good example of this is the variety of jobs that some famous people left behind to dedicate themselves to their vocation.
Another whose first work did not predict the international success she would have later is Bad Gyal. The queen of dancehall worked for some time in a bakery in her native Vilassar de Mar before striking out, which is how the artist refers to succeeding in music. Today she finally releases her highly anticipated studio album, La Joia, and in two weeks she will once again fill the Palau Sant Jordi.
Kanye West worked as a sales assistant at Gap, Meghan Markle was a calligraphy teacher before becoming an actress, and Georgina Rodríguez was working as a sales assistant at Gucci when she met her most special client, Cristiano Ronaldo.
And who doesn't remember that David Bustamante worked as a bricklayer in San Vicente de la Barquera before his time in Operación Triunfo. Or that his namesake, Bisbal, was studying to become a forest ranger and before entering the academy he had started working in a nursery to take care of trees and then replant them.
The comedian and presenter Eva Soriano also told Ricard Ustrell this week on TV3's Col·lapse that she had worked as a box office manager in Port Aventura. He was then in charge of admissions and in exchange for a tip he let visitors bring in outside food. Yesterday the radio program that Soriano presents with Nacho García, Special Forces, completed 500 programs and it seems that Reus's career has only just begun.
Even Ada Colau has a curious work past. In the early 2000s, she developed a brief television career acting in the series Dos Una that aired on Antena 3 before devoting herself to politics.
Miguel Ángel Silvestre's job was more than a job, it was an aspiration for which he worked hard. He didn't want to be an actor or a model, but rather a tennis player. The Valencian has confessed it on several occasions: “I wanted to be the best tennis player in the world without having the greatest talent in the world.” He has not won any Roland Garros but he has not done badly since he was crowned Mister Castellón in 2002.
The hospitality industry is jokingly called the prelude to acting because of the long list of actors and actresses who dedicated themselves to serving tables before achieving success. This was the case of Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Eva Longoria, James Franco, Sandra Bullock, Tom Cruise, Chris Pratt, Megan Fox, Chris Rock and also the Sevillian Belén Cuesta.
