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。