It can be easy to see the world's most powerful and influential people as occupying a sphere far removed from the rest us.
But many of the most successful people started off working odd jobs to earn money.
These 24 highly successful people prove that the path to success doesn't have to be linear.
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Jeff Bezos worked the grill at McDonald's
The founder and CEO of internet-retail behemoth Amazon got his start working the grill at McDonald's during his summers as a teenager, according to the book "Golden Opportunity: Remarkable Careers That Began at McDonald's."
"The most challenging thing was keeping everything going at the right pace during a rush,"Bezos said. "The manager at my McDonald's was excellent. He had a lot of teenagers working for him, and he kept us focused even while we had fun."
President Donald Trump collected bottles
The leader of the US grew up wealthy, but his father wanted him to learn the value of money early on.
As a kid, his dad would take him to construction sites and have him and his brother pick up empty soda bottles to redeem for cash, Trump tells Forbes. He says that he didn't make much, but it taught him to work for his money.
President Barack Obama scooped ice cream
As a teenager growing up in Honolulu, Obama got his first gig working the counter at Baskin-Robbins, Time reports.
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