Before he was rock and rolling, Dave Grohl was just rocking and it had nothing to do with the music industry at all. He had a few notable jobs before jumping into his music career. He worked at a furniture warehouse, but that has nothing to do with rock or rocks of any sort. He worked in masonry, which does have a bit to do with rocks. Then he worked in rocks. Lots of rocks. Grohl tells Rolling Stone, “I worked at a nursery breaking f**king rocks.” Back in his younger days in Springfield, Virginia, there didn’t seem to be a whole of career prospects for the future musician, which is why he got into music in the first place.

“At one point, I thought, ‘I know how to play drums. I’ll learn to read music, become a session drummer and from that money, I’ll put myself back through school,” Grohl says. But when he talked to his high school guidance counselor about wanting a career in music, she responded by telling him, “You only want to do that because you know where the drugs are.” She’s certainly eating those words these days.