In some cases those jobs merely helped stars like Sean Bean, Jarvis Cocker and Alex Turner earn a little spending money before they achieved fame but for others they proved character-building or acted as a launchpad for their future success.
The jobs they did include selling fish at the old Castle Market, working as an office tea boy and temping at HMV in Sheffield city centre.
These are some of the early jobs held by Sheffield folk who would go on to become household names, and what they have said about those jobs.
5. Sean Bean - steelworker
Game of Thrones actor Sean Bean was born and raised in Handsworth, Sheffield. His dad Brian was a steel plater with his own business, and after Sean left Brook Comprehensive School with just two O-levels he began working at his father’s fabrication company while studying welding one day a week at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology. Things could have been very different had the Sheffield United fan not stumbled across an arts class and discovered his true calling. Photo: Getty Images
6. Alex Turner - bar staff
Before Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys conquered the charts, a young Alex Turner worked at the famous old Boardwalk music venue on Snig Hill, which is today sadly closed and boarded up. The band would name their first demo Under the Boardwalk. Photo: Yui Mok
7. Helen Sharman - working for confectionery giant Mars
Helen Sharman, who was born in Grenoside, Sheffield, is the first British person to have gone into space. Having completed a chemistry degree at the University of Sheffield, she went on to work as a chemist for the confectionery giant Mars, investigating the properties of chocolate. She was driving home from that job when, aged 26, she heard the radio advert, saying 'astronaut wanted, no experience necessary', which would change her life. Photo: Jack Taylor
8. Emily Maitlis - tutoring
The former Newsnight presenter, who attended King Edward VII school in Sheffield before studying at Cambridge, took up a tutoring job in Hong Kong after graduating from university. She has told how it was the politics of China at the time, a few years after the Tiananmen Square protests, which inspired her to pursue a career in journalism. Photo: James Manning