{"id":10114,"date":"2025-09-10T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/794282687495110656-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:00:59","slug":"794282687495110656-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/794282687495110656-2\/","title":{"rendered":"794282687495110656"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/martinacastellanos\/2025\/09\/06\/these-fast-food-workers-including-jeff-bezos-and-jensen-huang-became-billionaires-after-working-at-fast-food-chains-like-wendys-mcdonalds\/\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/martinacastellanos\/2025\/09\/06\/these-fast-food-workers-including-jeff-bezos-and-jensen-huang-became-billionaires-after-working-at-fast-food-chains-like-wendys-mcdonalds\/\",\"title\":\"Meet The Fast Food Workers Who Became Billionaires\",\"description\":\"From McDonald\u2019s to Wendy\u2019s, early minimum wage jobs at these chains offered  much more than a paycheck.\",\"site_name\":\"Forbes\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"db6af1f0c1a081a681e9f6536598cede:0fe85efd056e8099-74\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":900}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/martinacastellanos\/2025\/09\/06\/these-fast-food-workers-including-jeff-bezos-and-jensen-huang-became-billionaires-after-working-at-fast-food-chains-like-wendys-mcdonalds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meet The Fast Food Workers Who Became Billionaires<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInthe summer of 1980, a lanky, 16-year-old Jeff Bezos walked into a McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Miami, filled out an application and landed his first ever job. \u2018My dad had worked at McDonald\u2019s when he was young, too, so in some ways it felt like a rite of passage,\u2019 says Bezos. Part of the kitchen crew, he cracked 300 eggs a day, flipped burgers and scrubbed bathrooms. When a five-gallon ketchup dispenser spilled all over the kitchen floor, it was his job to clean it up. \u2018I was the low man on the totem pole,\u2019 he recalls. A far cry from throwing a $20 million wedding in Venice or flying into space, the experience still taught him valuable lessons. \u2018No job is beneath you,\u2019 says Bezos, 61, adding that people should \u2018build the habit early and not wait for an \u201cimportant\u201d job before working hard.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet The Fast Food Workers Who Became Billionaires \u201cInthe summer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[5634,2472,813,802,773,808,7568,258,2846,2845,714,638,641,2842,640,2847],"class_list":["post-10114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-amazon","tag-billionaire","tag-career","tag-ceo","tag-employment","tag-entrepreneur","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-job","tag-lower-class","tag-middle-class","tag-millionaire","tag-money","tag-poor","tag-poverty","tag-rich","tag-working-class"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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