The Former Jobs of World Leaders

Michael Higgins, President of Ireland: Waiter

The Irish president might be rich and successful now, but it wasn’t always that way. Higgins was born into a poor family and relocated to England, where he worked as a wine waiter to save money for school. More recently, though, Higgins has also had a career as a poet and a writer of non-fiction. He has published four collections of his own poetry since 1990.