13 completely unglamorous first jobs of tech world superstars

Sometimes it can feel like tech giants were always destined to be on top of the world.

We have this vision that because many of them seem otherworldly in their IQ levels, they all must have had jobs fixing security systems for Fortune 500 companies when they were 12 years old - or perhaps spent their time hacking those companies.

For some startup founders and CEOs this might have been the case, but others come from much more humble professional beginnings. But for every teenage Sean Parker founding Napster in his bedroom, there is another tech luminary who had a far less "cool" first job - and who knows, maybe it taught them about in business through a different lens.

Here are 13 of the goofiest, crappiest, and most unglamorous early jobs of big shot tech executives, from McDonald's team member to vacuum salesman.