Albert Einstein was unemployed.
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Einstein spent his first two years out of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School without a full-time job, in large part because the professors whose classes he cut refused to recommend him for teaching posts.
Though Einstein’s degree was for teaching physics and math, his first job came when his friend Marcel Grossmann hooked him up with a clerking job at the Swiss patent office in 1902.
Einstein’s father died shortly afterward, thinking that his son was a failure.
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