
Blake Shelton – Worst Pre-Fame Jobs
Blake Shelton probably had the most boring pre-fame job. He dubbed tapes -- as in cassette tapes. There's a small portion of Taste of Country readers who've never held a cassette tape (or tried to reel it back in with a pencil), but even those who remember the days of Side A and Side B didn't know that people got paid to dub cassette tapes. That would be like if people got paid to look at Facebook all day. Oh, wait...
Another job Shelton held before releasing 'Austin' in 2001 was painting houses. He says he liked that job much better.
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