No one starts his/her career at the top. Experience really matters
here and often, a bit of time, to succeed. Even the exceptional
entrepreneur and innovator, Steve Jobs, spent quite some time trying to
discover his purpose and direction in his early years, abandoning his
job as a designer of video games to travel through India.
The early lives and engagements of mega-successful people can be
eventful to ruminate on and we might, from there, learn one or more
things about our own paths. The following are the early jobs of 6 famous
billionaires.
(1) BILL GATE (Computer Programmer)
With a net worth of $75 billion in 2016, he tops Forbes’
billionaires’ list. Gates was always excited about computers and works
with them in a revolutionary ways while still in high school. After
taking advantage of the software glitches to obtain extra computer time
when he lost his computer privileges, Bill designed a scheduling program
for his school as well as a payroll program for the computer company he
had hacked into. Although, at that point, his hobby as a computer
programmer was not an official paying job for him, his passion drove him
to do the work.
(2) WARREN BUFFETT (Newspaper Delivery)
Summing
up the beginnings of Buffet’s exceptional career in business by stating
only that he delivered newspapers would not be fair. Warren’s early
life was actually quite remarkable. In his early years, he was
identified as having superb skills in mathematics and he ambitiously had
keen desire to be great. His first investment was in stock-brokerage at
the age of 11 and filed his first tax returns at the age of 13 for his
paper-route. He claimed his bicycle had a $35 tax deduction. Now, he is
worth more than $60 billion.
(3) JEFF BEZOS (Camp Director/Camp Counselor)
Worth
more than $45 billion, Jeff Bezos is an entrepreneur, investor and the
founder of Amazon.com. His ambition was evident from an early age like
many others on this list. His early job came in high school where he
started his first business; an educational summer camp program which he
designed for younger students called ‘the Dream Institute’. This helped
paved the way for all that was to come in his now future.
(4) MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (Parking Lot Attendant)
Presently with a net worth of $40 billion, Michael Bloomberg was not always the businessman that you see now. He paid his way through Johns
Hopkins University when he was a young man with student loans and
working as a parking attendant. He exhibited an early interest in public
service by becoming one of the country’s astute youngest Eagle Scouts
back in 1958.
(5) PHIL KNIGHT (Assistant Professor)
According to Forbes‘ most recent list, Phil Knight is worth an
estimated $24.4 billion. He is the co-founder of Nike Inc. Knight wasn’t
sure exactly what he wanted to engage in professionally. As a result,
he did many different jobs as a young man. Phil served in the army for
some time and also worked as an assistant professor at Portland State
University. He also showed an interest in athletics at a very young age
as he was a middle-distance runner in college at the University of
Oregon in Eugene where he studied journalism.
(6) ALIKO DANGOTE (Petty Trader)
As of July 2016, he had an estimated net worth of $15.4 billion. The
richest African entrepreneur owns the Dangote Group which has interests
in commodities. The company operates in Nigeria and other African
countries, including Benin, South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana,
Ethiopia, Tanzania, Togo and Zambia.
His entrepreneurial skill began at a
very early age when he was in primary school
He would buy cartons of sweets (sugar boxes) and sell them just to
make money even though he came from a rich background. Today, the same
passion has led him into building a stupendous business empire. He is so
rich he wants to buy the English football club ‘Ársenal’.
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