President Putin’s first job isn’t a secret, in fact it’s probably the most well-known on this list. He spent 17 years working for the KGB, which has since split into the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR RF), as a mid-level agent. Currently in power until 2024, the country voted on consitutional reforms at the beginning of July which saw nearly 78% vote in favour of changes that will allow Putin to serve another two six-year terms, and potentially remain in power until 2036. Either way he’s not due a career change anytime soon.
What is more of a surprise is he's admitted moonlighting as a private driver following the fall of the Soviet Union as he struggled to make ends meet. He drove a Volga car he brought back from East Germany, where he had been working for the KGB. "It’s not pleasant to speak about honestly, but unfortunately that is what happened.,” he says in a new documentary. He was then employed as an aide in Leningrad city council. The rest, as they say, is history...