An extremely successful acquaintance of mine (in his last position, CEO with scads of options at a now industry leading company when it went pubic) once mentioned in passing that the start of his career was the summer he spend as as blue-collar teenager waiting tables at an upscale East Coast Country club:
“I realized that there are an awful lot of awfully dumb awfully rich people sitting around there, just waiting for someone to tell them what to do with their money”.