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This multimillionaire once cleaned meat trucks for $7 an hour, but a coffee shop encounter proved 'You're just one move away from changing your life'

Jesse Itzler (Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

In today’s uneasy job market and stubborn inflation, escaping a dead-end job can feel impossible. The dream of doing something meaningful—or even just something better—can start to fade, and it’s a feeling Jesse Itzler knows well.

Long before becoming a multimillionaire serial entrepreneur, Itzler was cleaning meat trucks for $7 an hour and working summers as a kiddie pool attendant. He even tried, unsuccessfully, to make it as a rapper.

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