Mark Cuban shares his first jobs, from selling garbage bags to working at a deli

Mark Cuban shares his first jobs, from selling garbage bags to working at a deli. (via CNBCMakeIt)

After graduating from Indiana University, he moved back to Pittsburgh, his hometown, and got a job at Mellon Bank, but it wasn't for him. "A lot of my peers at Mellon were just happy to have a job,"He wasn't: "I wanted to be more entrepreneurial. I took the initiative. I used to send notes to the CEO of the bank. I once cut out a magazine story about how corporations could save money by withholding Social Security and sent it to him. He sent me a thank-you letter back.

His entrepreneurial spirit would eventually serve him well, but first, it cost him a job. After Mellon, Cuban moved to Texas to work for a computer software company, but he got fired for closing a deal without approval from the CEO. That led to him starting his own computer consulting service, MicroSolutions, which he went on to sell

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