What These Successful People Did The First Year After College
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siliconindia | Wednesday, 20 August 2014, 17:32 IST
Hillary Clinton Worked In an Alaska Salmon-Processing Factory
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton had no cake walk either in her initial days, as she spent a summer washing dishes at Mt. McKinley National Park and working in a salmon-processing factory.
The former United States Secretary of State, U.S. Senator, and First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2013, had to wear knee-high boots and stand in blood-spattered water while removing guts from the salmon with a spoon. She was later fired for informing her supervisors that some of the fish looked bad.
As she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975, she led a task force that reformed Arkansas's education system. And during that time, she was on the board of Wal-Mart and several other corporations.
Elon Musk Went to Graduate School (Briefly)
Musk a South Africa-born, Canadian American business magnate, inventor, and investor, worked as a New York City dietitian and modeled for fun. Driven by his love for technology, he later moved to California to enroll in a graduate program in physics at Stanford, in which he stayed exactly two days.
After dropping out Must started Zip2, which provided online content publishing software for news organizations and In 1999, Compaq's AltaVista division acquired Zip2 for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options.
A year later, Musk's second startup, X.com, acquired the company that went on to be later known as PayPal.
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