Before They Were Famous

The 'Hard Work and a Hammer' singer was putting in a full day's work before he was a teenager. At age 12, Alan Jackson took a job repairing shoes at a store in his hometown of Newnan, Ga.

Martina McBride had a chance to return to one of her pre-fame jobs in 2009. The 'Oprah Winfrey Show' taped a segment featuring the singer behind the counter of the Dairy Queen in Hutchinson, Kan. She worked there for a year while attending junior college nearby and traveling to gigs on weekends...

Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood started writing songs together at the University of Georgia, but after graduation they split up, with Haywood remaining in Atlanta and Kelley moving to Winston-Salem, N.C. Kelley didn't make use of his business degree, however...

It's a good thing that Blake Shelton's goal of country music superstardom worked out because the day jobs he held prior to signing a record deal weren't nearly as glamorous or as profitable.