Colonel Sanders
The 1974 autobiography of Harland Sanders (aka Colonel Saunders) listed him as having been
- a sixth-grade dropout
- a farm hand
- an army mule-tender
- a locomotive fireman
- a railroad worker
- an aspiring lawyer
- an insurance salesman
- ferryboat entrepreneur
- a tire salesman
- an amateur obstetrician
- an (unsuccessful) political candidate
- a gas station operator
- a motel operator and finally
- A restaurateur