Inside David Schwimmer’s ‘crappy summer jobs’ before he landed ‘Friends’

Before he made it big on “Friends,” David Schwimmer worked on wheels for seven long years.

By then Schwimmer was used to hard work as he’d been hardened by a series of "really crappy summer jobs." "I worked at this place called Steve’s Ice-Cream where you had to mix in all the candy or cookie crumbs by hand on this big marble slab for three bucks an hour," Schwimmer recalled. "At 16, I worked at this copy machine place. I had to pretend to be some guy from Xerox. I’d phone up customers and say: ‘I see you have a Xerox 2-2500. Looks like you’re running out of toner.’ Some innocent secretary would say: ‘I don’t think we are?’ and I’d say: ‘I think you are, let me send you a couple of boxes.’ It wasn’t exactly legal. I turned up one day and the whole place had been raided." While he made the world fall in love with him on "Friends," Schwimmer almost didn’t become an actor at all.