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What were some of your favorite hosts doing BEFORE they came to QVC? They're sharing their stories and fabulous old job photos below!

Mary Beth Roe:

By the time I graduated college, I had an audition video ready to send out for a potential news job. Within two weeks, I was hired to be the first female evening news anchor in Eau Claire, WI. It was a great place for me to start and get my feet wet while really learning the business. That was 1981 when a lot of cities still only had male news anchors behind the desk. So it was rather groundbreaking back then. I was there 3 years and only left to get married to Mark.

Kerstin Lindquist:

I’ve had some pretty interesting jobs. One of my very first jobs, when I was 14, was a roller-skating snowflake during the Disney parade in Anaheim, CA where I had to wear a fabulous white leotard.  Next, I was a lifeguard. I absolutely loved it. I made some of my best friends and got to be out in the sun all day and get paid for it. I was also a news broadcaster for 8 years, working on everything from undercover work in Mexico to investigative reporting from Guantanamo Bay. I even won 4 Emmys! But the funniest old job story of all? I replaced Rachel Boesing as the weather girl in Las Vegas!

Shawn Killinger:

This is me in 1997. I worked for CBS News. I was an Assistant on the Foreign News desk. To this day I consider working in that newsroom, the Dan Rather one, the greatest accomplishment of my life.  I was a low level, starter out-ter. I faxed, answered phones, prepared passport apps for our Foreign correspondents. I was gifted at ordering lunch.

Leah Williams:

Fast asleep and still in my uniform after a long day making burgers at Jack In The Box circa 1978.

Jacque Gonzales:

I really need to sit down and write about my almost 19 years in radio (I started when I was 14) - and some of the best friends and mentors I've ever had! I'm going to start digging through my old photos too! But this photo I thought would be fun for some of you to guess who he is?!?!? Without radio - I wouldn't have ended up at QVC - I'm eternally grateful - and will ALWAYS be a Radio Girl at heart!!! Oh, and this is Slick Rick.

Dan Wheeler: Here are two old photos from my first job in radio.  When I was 19 years old I worked a summer job as a disc jockey at WWOG-FM radio station in Boca Raton, Florida.  The station was located in the middle if what seemed to be "a jungle."  I had to sign the station on the air at 6am - meaning I arrived at 4:30AM. It was a little scary showing up there in the dark.  One morning I was putting my key in the door and I heard a hissing sound.  I looked up and a water moccasin snake was about two inches from my face!  It had slithered up a bush and was wrapped around the light fixture above the door.  I was able to get a long stick and put that snake back into the jungle. But what a way to start your day! Oh, and it was all for $1.60 an hour!

Jennifer Coffey:

Before QVC I owned four clothing boutiques in Texas! This was my first, in a 160-year old building in New Braunfels.

Sharon Faetsch:

My first job when I moved to Vegas in ’97 was as a magician’s assistant. One of my illusions was to be stabbed with swords in a sword basket, and come out wearing a different costume. I can’t give away any secrets, but I spent a lot of money on skin-colored tights that year!

What was your very first job? Tell us in the comments below!