From selling bras to taming lions, here are the summer jobs 19 super successful people had before they were famous

Even very, very famous people have to start somewhere.

And for a lot of them, "somewhere" is a summer job. For some, those high school and college gigs were obvious steps toward incredible careers. For others, the path to success was...a little more winding.

But while Madeleine Albright may not have found her ultimate calling in bra sales, and Christopher Walken didn't go onto have a lucrative lion taming career, everyone learned something from the experience - even if it was what they didn't want to do.

We combed through interviews with business leaders, political leaders, artists, and tech stars to figure out what some of America's most successful people did over their summer vacations when they were younger.