The Hannah Montana star moonlighted as a house cleaner with Sparkles Cleaning Service before landing her life-changing Disney Channel role.
"I had one normal job and I actually liked it," Cyrus said on Tyra in 2008, noting, "I can clean toilet bowls."
The "Applause" singer had an after-school job waitressing at at diner on New York's Upper West Side. She used the extra cash to buy a Gucci purse to fit in with her classmates at her all-girls private school.
"I was so excited because all the girls at Sacred Heart always had their fancy purses, and I always had whatever," she told New York. "My mom and dad were not buying me a $600 purse."
The artist born Stefani Germanotta put those skills back to use when she played bartender and served food at her dad's then-new restaurant Art Bird in 2018.
Even before the comedian earned minimum wage busing tables at a Red Lobster in Queens, N.Y., he was a paper delivery assistant for the New York Daily News, working alongside his dad Julius.
"I loaded trucks at the Brooklyn plant over on Pacific St.," Rock told the publication in 2014. "I have actual fond memories of working not just with my father, but with old cats loading trucks."
As for the Red Lobster, he shared in a stand-up routine, "I used to scrape shrimp into the garbage can and then load up the dishwasher. That was my real job. I never got a raise, I never got a promotion. They kept me in the back because I had really f--ked-up teeth and they didn't want people to think that shrimp f--cked up your teeth."
The No Doubt singer was once just a girl working at a Dairy Queen.
"When I started there, I fit in my outfit," Stefani said of her high school-era job during a segment on The Voice in 2014. "When I ended there, I did not fit in my outfit." But she could sample the goods all day and not gain an ounce at her next job, working the makeup counter at a department store.
In an anecdote seemingly ripped from an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, DeVito shared on a 2022 episode of the The Always Sunny podcast that he dabbled in posthumous hairdressing for funerals.
After a client passed away, her family asked if he would do her hair, the Taxi star explained, after which he styled several more corpses.
"I would go to the morgue and they're there, they're dead, they're done up by the mortician," he recalled. "I would take their hair and use the dry setting lotion and curl the hair, set the hair, take it out and fluff it up a little."
The singer walked out mad after two weeks working at McDonald's when his manager yelled at him for over-salting the fries.