What were some of your favorite hosts doing BEFORE they came to QVC? They're sharing their stories and fabulous old job photos below!
Mary Beth Roe:
By the time I graduated college, I had an audition video ready to send out for a potential news job. Within two weeks, I was hired to be the first female evening news anchor in Eau Claire, WI. It was a great place for me to start and get my feet wet while really learning the business. That was 1981 when a lot of cities still only had male news anchors behind the desk. So it was rather groundbreaking back then. I was there 3 years and only left to get married to Mark.
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Kerstin Lindquist:
I’ve had some pretty interesting jobs. One of my very first jobs, when I was 14, was a roller-skating snowflake during the Disney parade in Anaheim, CA where I had to wear a fabulous white leotard. Next, I was a lifeguard. I absolutely loved it. I made some of my best friends and got to be out in the sun all day and get paid for it. I was also a news broadcaster for 8 years, working on everything from undercover work in Mexico to investigative reporting from Guantanamo Bay. I even won 4 Emmys! But the funniest old job story of all? I replaced Rachel Boesing as the weather girl in Las Vegas!
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Shawn Killinger:
This is me in 1997. I worked for CBS News. I was an Assistant on the Foreign News desk. To this day I consider working in that newsroom, the Dan Rather one, the greatest accomplishment of my life. I was a low level, starter out-ter. I faxed, answered phones, prepared passport apps for our Foreign correspondents. I was gifted at ordering lunch.
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Leah Williams: (sorry do not have original picture)
Fast asleep and still in my uniform after a long day making burgers at Jack In The Box circa 1978.
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Jacque Gonzales:
I really need to sit down and write about my almost 19 years in radio (I started when I was 14) - and some of the best friends and mentors I've ever had! I'm going to start digging through my old photos too! But this photo I thought would be fun for some of you to guess who he is?!?!? Without radio - I wouldn't have ended up at QVC - I'm eternally grateful - and will ALWAYS be a Radio Girl at heart!!! Oh, and this is Slick Rick.
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Dan Wheeler: Here are two old photos from my first job in radio. When I was 19 years old I worked a summer job as a disc jockey at WWOG-FM radio station in Boca Raton, Florida. The station was located in the middle if what seemed to be "a jungle." I had to sign the station on the air at 6am - meaning I arrived at 4:30AM. It was a little scary showing up there in the dark. One morning I was putting my key in the door and I heard a hissing sound. I looked up and a water moccasin snake was about two inches from my face! It had slithered up a bush and was wrapped around the light fixture above the door. I was able to get a long stick and put that snake back into the jungle. But what a way to start your day! Oh, and it was all for $1.60 an hour!
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Jennifer Coffey:
Before QVC I owned four clothing boutiques in Texas! This was my first, in a 160-year old building in New Braunfels.
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What was your very first job? Tell us in the comments below!