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 were born without silver spoons in their mouths and started off working odd jobs to earn money. These 20 highly successful people prove that the path to success doesn’t have to be linear.

Dylan Love contributed reporting.

 

Hillary Clinton supervised park activities.

Clinton writes in her autobiography “Hard Choices” that she got her first paying job, other than babysitting, at 13, supervising a small park a few miles from her home in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois.

Clinton says she had to lug a wagon full of balls, bats, and jump ropes back and forth three days a week that summer.

“My parents believed in self-reliance and hard work, and they made sure we kids learned the value of a dollar and appreciated the dignity of a job well done,” she writes.

 

Donald Trump collected bottles.