Take Kanye West, for instance. Nowadays, the rapper is often spotted sitting front row at fashion shows, but back in the day he used to work as a sales assistant at the Gap store.

West isn’t the only one who was selling products. For a whole three years, Rachel McAdams worked at McDonald’s. She apparently wasn’t the ideal employee and even broke the orange juice machine once.

Queen of pop Madonna used to work at Dunkin’ Donuts, in Times Square. It’s been reported that she was fired after accidently squirting jelly filling all over a customer.

The oddest one has to be Whoopi Goldberg who worked as a mortuary beautician prior to her fame. What does that entail? Applying make-up or performing any beauty services on recently deceased individuals.

Now, the biggest change of career has to be Barack Obama’s. The president of the United States –and Julia Roberts– both used to be ice cream scoopers at Baskin Robbins.

Former Charlie’s Angels beauty Lucy Liu actually used to be an aerobics instructor, which might explain her perfect figure, while Nicole Kidman was once a massage therapist.

Patrick Dempsey –known as “McDreamy” in Grey’s Anatomy– was a champion juggler before becoming an actor and actually came second in the International Jugglers Competition and the Junior Division in 1982 and 1983.