美总统首份工作五花八门：奥巴马当过杂工

美国有线电视新闻网7月3日报道，风光无限的总统们也有落魄时，苦哈哈地工作，领着惨兮兮的薪水。但铺就成功之路的，往往就是这些看似不如意的“沉默时光”。

Obama: Ice cream scooper

奥巴马：冰激凌店小工

President Obama recently said in a magazine interview that he was paid minimum wage or close to it in his first four jobs.

He scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins, worked as a painter and waited tables at an assisted living facility.

Obama spent one summer clearing construction sites on the Upper West Side when attending Columbia University.

While some Presidents (think Roosevelts, Bushes, JFK) are pretty well-off compared to the majority of people they're elected to represent, Obama is not alone. There are plenty of former commanders-in-chief who knew what it was like to work hard for low wages.

近日，奥巴马在接受一本杂志采访时透露，自己年轻时也曾是打工仔，最初四份工作的工资比最低标准高不到哪儿去。他曾在一家名为“芭斯罗缤”的冰激凌店舀过冰激凌、做过油漆工、也在养老院当过勤杂工。在哥大学习期间，奥巴马还做过建筑工地的清理工。

相比出身显赫的罗斯福、布什和肯尼迪，奥巴马显得有些辛酸，不过还有许多总统和他一样，清楚地知道拿着微薄薪水拼命工作的滋味。

Ronald Reagan: Lifeguard, dish washer

里根：救生员、洗碗工

Reagan lifeguarded for several summers at Rock River in his hometown of Dixon, Ill., while in high school. He reportedly saved 77 lives.

He attended Eureka College in Illinois on a partial football scholarship and covered the remaining cost by washing dishes at his fraternity house.

After graduating in 1932, Reagan got a job as a radio sportscaster at WOC in Davenport, Iowa. The radio station paid him $10 per game ($174 in today's dollars).

Reagan, of course, eventually went on to Hollywood.

高中时代的里根曾在家乡狄克逊的罗克河做了好几年的救生员，救起过77个溺水的人。

随后他进入尤里卡学院学习，靠踢足球踢来的奖学金和洗碗工的工资付学费，没让家里掏一分钱。1932年，毕业后的里根在爱荷华州的一家广播电台当起了播报员，当时每播一场比赛，电台只给他10美元。不过后来，他去好莱坞混了。

Gerald Ford: Burger flipper

福特：烤汉堡员

Ford helped out at his stepfather's paint store and grilled burgers at a local restaurant while in high school.

He also played a lot of football, eventually playing center for the University of Michigan. Both the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions offered him contracts, but Ford turned them down because he wanted to attend law school.

Ford didn't gain admission immediately, so he got an assistant football coaching job at Yale, making $2,400 for the year in 1935. That would be $42,676 in 2014 dollars. He also coached boxing, helping him to pay down his debts and get a foot in the door at Yale Law School, where he was admitted in 1938.

同样也是在高中时代，福特在继父的印刷店里帮忙，除此之外，还在当地的一家快餐店里烤汉堡。福特的橄榄球打得很好，在密歇根大学校队打中锋时，由于球技精湛，被底特律狮队和绿湾包装工队同时相中，不过福特都没答应，因为他心心念念的是耶鲁法学院。

申请学校的一段时间里，他也没闲着，一边在耶鲁做橄榄球助教、一边还教人打拳击。凭着这两份薪水，他在还清贷款之余，还挣了不少，仅橄榄球助教就让他在1935年挣了2400美元（相当于如今的42676美元）。1938年，福特如愿以偿，拿着自己挣的学费进了法学院。

Herbert Hoover: Miner

胡佛：矿工

While still a teenager, Hoover and a friend started a company that sold and repaired sewing machines. The business failed, but it was not the future president's only brush with entrepreneurship.

He enrolled at Stanford in 1891, in the university's first class. Although tuition was free at the time, students still had to pay for room, board and books. To cover the costs Hoover ran a laundry service, a concert series and a campus paper route. He made a profit selling the laundry service to another student, allowing him to graduate with no debts and $40 in his pocket, according to a biography written by Amy Ruth.

After graduating, Hoover took a job pushing carts underground in mine shafts in California. He earned $2 a day, working 70 hours a week, according to presidential historian Richard Norton Smith. That daily wage is equal to $56 today.

胡佛十几岁的时候就和朋友开了个小公司，出售和维修缝纫机。不幸小公司没撑多久，可他创业的脚步没有就此停下。1891年，胡佛进入斯坦福大学，成为了斯坦福的第一届学生。当时的斯坦福是不收学费的，不过食宿和书本要学生自己负担。为了挣到这笔钱，他又开始为同学们提供洗衣服务。毕业后，胡佛找了一份工作，在地下的矿井里推矿车。一周工作70个小时，可每天只能挣2美元。

Richard Nixon: Produce buyer

尼克松：采购员

Nixon did not come from money.

"You could literally say they were dirt poor," said Barbara Perry, a co-chair of the Miller Center Oral History Program at the University of Virginia.

Nixon's financial troubles stemmed from the failed lemon ranch his parents owned until 1922. His father then opened a combined grocery store and gas station in Whittier, Calif., where the entire family worked.

Nixon would get up every morning before school to go into Los Angeles and check out the available produce selection, said historian Richard Norton Smith.

In 1930, Nixon enrolled in Whittier College, and later won a scholarship to Duke University's law school.

尼克松家条件不好，甚至可以说是困苦。1922年，尼克松家的牧场破产。随后，父亲用仅剩的家底开了杂货铺和加油站，全家人都在店里帮忙。凌晨4点，尼克松就必须起床，开着家里的卡车去进货，然后才去上学。