
Worst Pre-Fame Jobs: No. 7
Joe Ely: Llama Wrangler
The country-rock icon left Lubbock, Texas, to join the Ringing Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, but the job turned out to be less romantic than Ely imagined. He recalls getting covered in llama spit and having the World's Smallest Horse repeatedly bite him on the knee.
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