33. Borgnine went from vegetable seller to vet
After graduating high school in 1935, Ernest Borgnine was selling vegetables on the street when he saw a Navy recruitment poster, and decided being a sailor seemed more interesting than his current occupation. He enlisted, and ended up aboard the destroyer/ minesweeper USS Lamberton, until his honorable discharge in October of 1941. A few months later, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and Borgnine reenlisted soon thereafter. He spent WWII patrolling the Atlantic coast aboard the USS Sylph, on antisubmarine duty, until his discharge in 1945 as a Gunner’s Mate, 1st Class.