EARLY CRAPPY JOBS OF THE STARS.

GWEN STEFANI ONCE MOPPED FLOORS AT A DAIRY QUEEN . . . AND OTHER CRAPPY EARLY JOBS OF THE STARS:

We all love to hear about the crappy jobs celebrities had before they were stars. Well, here's a collection of them we found online. You may have heard some of these already, but most of them were new to me . . . so here we go . . .

--ORLANDO BLOOM worked as a clay pigeon trapper at a skeet shooting range when he was 13.

--BEYONCÉ swept up hair at her mother's beauty salon.

--MICK JAGGER sold ice cream as a teenager . . . then later worked as a porter at a mental hospital.

--WARREN BEATTY once worked as a RAT CATCHER.

--COLIN POWELL worked in a baby furniture store in the Bronx.

--WARREN BUFFETT . . . one of the richest men in the world . . . worked at his grandfather's grocery store.

--OZZY OSBOURNE worked in a slaughterhouse.

--MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY spent a year in Australia when he was younger, and worked a variety of jobs. One of them involved shoveling chicken manure.

--CLINT BLACK sold newspaper subscriptions door-to-door.

--GWEN STEFANI mopped floors at a Dairy Queen.

--ROD STEWART was a gravedigger.

--JAMES BROWN racked balls at a pool hall.

--CHUBBY CHECKER plucked chickens. (--It was actually his boss who realized what a talented singer he was, and set him up with a recording session with DICK CLARK.)

--BILL COSBY sold produce, worked as a stock boy at a supermarket AND shined shoes.

--TOM CRUISE had the CLASSIC early job: He was a paperboy.

--ED MCMAHON worked as a carnival barker and a bingo caller . . . then sold vegetable slicers on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.

--BILL MURRAY sold chestnuts outside of a grocery store.

--BRAD PITT once wore a chicken suit to advertise an El Pollo Loco restaurant.

--CHRISTOPHER WALKEN did some LION TAMING for a circus. (???) But he later claimed the lion was old, and was really, quote, "more like a dog."