• In a profile published by InStyle today, Jennifer Aniston talked about all the odd jobs she used to do before landing the role of Rachel Green on Friends.
• As it turns out, she also worked as a waitress for years in New York City, as did her iconic Friends character.
• Other former vocations include being a telemarketer and hairstylist.

To be an actor is to be a waiter, some pursuers of the craft might say. Just take a look inside any Midtown or Chelsea restaurant and you'll surely be met with a waitstaff eagerly awaiting their big Broadway or Hollywood break. Suffice to say that this rite of passage is ubiquitous for actors. And Jennifer Aniston is no exception.

In a profile published by InStyle today, the now-distinguished star talked about all of her odd jobs before she landed her iconic role as Rachel Green in the '90s sitcom Friends. Turns out that Aniston made like Rachel, who worked as a coffeehouse waitress for the sitcom's first few seasons, and also waited tables in New York City.

"I was such a grown-up by then," Aniston said during the interview, referring to the early years of her rising fame following Friends' success. "I had moved away from home. I had been on six failed television shows. I waitressed for years in New York before I got anything. And I was a telemarketer selling time-shares in the Poconos. I didn't make one sale. I was terrible at it. I was like, 'Why do we have to call people at dinnertime?'"

Aniston circa 1990.

Besides waitressing and failing to make sells on Poconos time-shares, Aniston revealed that she once held a gig cutting hair. "I cut hair for 10 bucks a head in junior high. I could probably cut your hair," she said.

She also divulged that she would cut the hair of her father, actor John Aniston. “I cut my dad's hair, and he was on a soap opera [Days of Our Lives]. But then he admitted to me 15 years ago that he would go in and have the hairdresser on set clean it up.”

As an associate editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com, Chelsey keeps a finger on the pulse on all things celeb news. She also writes on social movements, connecting with activists leading the fight on workers' rights, climate justice, and more. Offline, she’s probably spending too much time on TikTok, rewatching Emma (the 2020 version, of course), or buying yet another corset. 

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