Lee Greenwood - card dealer in a casino
Tammy Wynette - beautician
Gene Autry - sheet metal worker
Bill Monroe - oil refinery laborer
Roy Acuff - semi-pro baseball player
Juice Newton - waitress
Kris Kristofferson - janitor
George Jones - Marines
Johnny Cash - Air Force
Hank Snow - ship's cabin boy
Tom T. Hall - gravedigger
Bob Wills - barber
Charlie Daniels - creosote plant laborer
Waylon Jennings - drove cement trucks
Don Williams - worked oil rigs
Jerry Clower - fertilizer salesman
Charley Pride - pro-baseball
Donna Fargo - school teacher
Conway Twitty - Navy
Hank Williams - sold peanuts

As a teenager, Martina McBride worked at Dairy Queen. Before getting signed, she worked selling t-shirts for Garth Brooks at his shows.

Sara Evans worked as a waitress in Nashville before getting signed, and before moving to Nashville she used to work at KFC. A few years ago she made a joke that she's still greasy from that job.

Johnny Cash was also a door-to-door salesman for a short time back in the 1950s.

Johnny Cash was also a door-to-door salesman for a short time back in the 1950s.

Yes, that's true. At one time, he was also a waterboy.