If you’re spending your summer scooping  ice cream, keeping a close watch on kids at a pool, or lathering on the bug spray for another nightly campfire as a camp counselor, consider yourself in A-list company, as all these jobs have been filled by celebrities before they got their big breaks. After all, before they were pulling in the big bucks, stars and musicians had to find ways to make money during the summer, too. So whose footsteps are you following in this summer, before heading back to high school or college?

John Krasinski: “The Office” cutie went off to camp when he was a teenager, serving as a counselor at Camp Chickami in Massachusetts. He told Access Hollywood: “I had a summer job that I loved. I was like 16 and I was somehow given the responsibility of the 13-year-olds. So we were just a couple years apart from probably hanging out and I had to be like ‘no don’t do that.’ And then I’d go do it. It was this weird, bizarre thing where I probably could have been beaten up by half of them and it was a really fun. It was a fun summer.”

Tina Fey: No joke – the Emmy award-winning actress and Sarah Palin look-a-like worked at a swim club’s snack bar as a teen.

Gwen Stefani: Stefani served up Dilly Bars, soft-serve cones (my favorite is chocolate-covered!) and more while working for Dairy Queen. When her brother Eric formed No Doubt with other Dairy Queen workers, she joined as another vocalist, People reported. We’re thinking her success calls for a special summertime Blizzard in the fashionable singer’s honor!

Mick Jagger: The Rolling Stones front man also got into the frozen treat business. He sold ice cream from a cart. We guess it was memorable – a couple of years ago, he reportedly offered to buy a vintage ice cream van, but the owner turned him down.

Sean Connery: Before he was 007, the debonair actor was in a life-saving role as a lifeguard, his bio says.

So if you’re getting ready to head to work today, think of these future celebrities heading to camp or dishing out ice cream. Are you one of them? Dish up what you’re doing this summer in our comments section below.

–Lori Johnston