On the road to finding your perfect job, there are often a couple of strange turns. Here to prove once and for all that career paths are never straight and narrow is Pope Francis, who worked as a nightclub bouncer before becoming leader of the Catholic faith.
These days the Holy Father travels the world celebrating mass and helping the needy.
But before he started guiding his followers to the peraly gates, the 84-year-old pontiff was charged with guarding another type of gate - namely, the entry to a club in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Back in 2013, Pope Francis regaled a congregation in suburban Rome with stories of his time as a doorman, Sky News reports.
He was celebrating Mass at the church of San Cirillo Alessandrino one Sunday when he made the unexpected revelation about his career history. Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported that the pontiff spent four hours talking to his congregation in the working-class suburb of Rome.
As well as telling them that he once worked as a bouncer in his native Buenos Aires, Pope Francis also described two other of his past jobs, recalling how he had swept floors and helped in a laboratory as a teenager.
Unfortunately, he didn't go into too much detail about how his time on the nightclub door, or give any examples of how his job in the nightlife industry has influenced his religious leadership.
Instead, Pope Francis - who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio - spoke about discovering his vocation to the clergy after going to confession with a priest he had never met before.
He also described how his work teaching literature and psychology "taught him how to get people back into the church," the paper reported.
Unsurprisingly, the revelation about the Pope's past job has caused quite a stir on social media.
"There's people out there that have been turned away for being too drunk by Pope Francis and they probably don't even know it," one person observed.
"From the dance floor to the church floor," another joked.
Meanwhile, one user made the point that his varied work experience probably makes Pope Francis better at his current job.
"He better be wiser because he's seen it all," they tweeted.
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