{"id":5661,"date":"2016-11-15T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Projects\/Internsdc\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2016-11-15T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:44:34","slug":"surprising-internships-youd-never-think-celebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/surprising-internships-youd-never-think-celebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Internships You\u2019d Never Think These Celebs Had"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Celebrity<\/h2>\n

Not many people start at the top, or even in the career they wind up in.<\/h2>\n

We get it \u2013 being an intern isn\u2019t always fun. But the experience can be hugely helpful in your career path. Here are just a few mega business people and top celebs who got their start fetching coffee and making copies in their internships..<\/p>\n

And, a surprising few got their start as a political intern.<\/h2>\n
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    Steven Spielberg<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The talented producer and director started his \u201cunofficial\u201d internship at Universal Studios where he had to sneak onto the premises to gain access. Whatever it takes, right? He networked his way through Universal and wrote a short film that eventually found its way into the hands of some execs. And the rest\u2026is history.<\/p>\n

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      Anderson Cooper<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Agent Anderson Cooper. Has a ring to it, doesn\u2019t it? The beloved news anchor got his start as a CIA agent at the ripe young age of 19. How does one get an internship with the CIA in the first place? That may be top secret.<\/p>\n

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        Conan O\u2019Brien<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        You\u2019ll never guess where the funny man started out: in politics. He interned for Barney Frank at the House of Representatives. He said he didn\u2019t pursue politics because he \u201cdidn\u2019t work his way up.\u201d Personally, we\u2019re glad he chose comedy instead.<\/p>\n

        \"Celebrity<\/p>\n

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          Oprah Winfrey<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          The mega-star and TV mogul got her start with an internship at a local Nashville radio station, and then at the WLAC-TV station. She was so successful they gave her an anchor position that named her the youngest and first black female anchor. The rest is more history.<\/p>\n

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            John Krasinski<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            And speaking of good intern karma, Conan himself had the future Jim Halpert on his staff as a script intern on \u201cLate Night with Conan O\u2019Brien.\u201d Way to support! Add to the list of Conan interns: Mindy Kaling.<\/p>\n

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              Bill Gates<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              One of the most successful men on the planet, Gates actually didn\u2019t get his start in technology. He worked as a congressional page for the U.S. House of Representatives at age 17. Two short years later, Gates co-founded Microsoft. Wonder how he got from politics to software. We\u2019ll have to read the biography!<\/p>\n

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                Brian Williams<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                The beloved news anchor, after attending school and not graduating, interned with Jimmy Carter. He never went back to school after that, but went on to a successful career in television.<\/p>\n

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                  Patrick Ewing<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Another political intern who went 180 later, Ewing worked for the Senate Finance Committee.<\/p>\n

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                    Lena Dunham<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    Much like her character Hannah in Girls<\/em>, Lena spent a summer interning for an independent publisher while attending Oberlin College. Unlike her character, though, she wasn\u2019t fired. In fact she was, \u201cgreat as expected,\u201d said her former boss, Richard Nash.<\/p>\n

                    Up next, Malia Obama!<\/h2>\n

                    Malia Obama just graduated from high school and has been accepted at Harvard! Go girl! Some would take the summer off and hand around the pool, but this girl will be interning in Spain at the US Embassy. I think she’s got this one.<\/p>\n

                    Have any other favorite celebrity or political interns we left off? Share them with us on Facebook!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    Not many people start at the top, or even in the career they wind up in. We get it \u2013 being an intern isn\u2019t always fun. But the experience can be hugely helpful in your career path. Here are just a few mega business people and top celebs who got their start fetching coffee and making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,43,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internship-advice","category-internship-tips","category-im-positive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atdevserver.com\/Internsdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}