Gerald Ford: Burger flipper

福特：烤漢堡員

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.

同樣也是在高中時代，福特在繼父的印刷店里幫忙，除此之外，還在當地的一家快餐店里烤漢堡。福特的橄欖球打得很好，在密歇根大學校隊打中鋒時，由于球技精湛，被底特律獅隊和綠灣包裝工隊同時相中，不過福特都沒答應，因為他心心念念的是耶魯法學院。

申請學校的一段時間里，他也沒閑著，一邊在耶魯做橄欖球助教、一邊還教人打拳擊。憑著這兩份薪水，他在還清貸款之余，還掙了不少，僅橄欖球助教就讓他在1935年掙了2400美元（相當于如今的42676美元）。1938年，福特如愿以償，拿著自己掙的學費進了法學院。