Sylvester Stallone once worked as a lion cage cleaner.

Back in 1969, Stallone was struggling to get by as a 22-year-old writer and actor in New York City. Money was so hard to come by that at one point he appeared in a cheap porno just to earn $200 with which to feed himself! After a while, he was able to land a few steady jobs which were marginally less humiliating. At various points in his early career he worked as a movie theater usher and even sliced and wrapped smelly fish! Regardless, his worst regular job by far would have to have been his time spent at the Central Park Zoo.
Here he was paid $1.12 an hour to scoop poop out of the lion cages. It gets worse though – often when he would enter the confinements, the kings of the jungle would pee on him!

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