Dive Brief:
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Before he found his niche as an unstoppable NFL quarterback, three-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady was a construction worker.
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After Brady posted his pre-NFL resume online on Thursday, his former boss at custom home building company Dudlar & Sons in Troy, MI, told TMZ that Brady was “the hardest worker I ever had.”
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Frank Dudlar described Brady, who spent a summer as a laborer with the builder, as “a real skinny kid” with “long hair down to his shoulders” and “a monster when it came to putting in work.”
Dive Insight:
Brady also worked summer jobs as a sales rep for the University of Michigan golf course and as an intern with Merrill Lynch.