A lot of different actors almost played Marvel's Wolverine in the X-Men films, but thankfully Hugh Jackman got the job. After all his Logan appearances, he made a whopping $100 million by the time he said goodbye to the character for good.

There were a few hiccups that came along the way, like that one time he was almost fired from the role, but could you imagine if he hadn't been cast? Or worse; that Jackman never even became an actor at all?

Plenty of actors and actresses, even actors like Harrison Ford and Alexander Skarsgård, had previous aspirations before acting. Jackman was no different. Acting was not his first choice, long before he was Logan.

Read on to learn Jackman's first job choice.

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As a child, Jackman knew one thing. He wanted to travel. He would constantly explore Australia when he was young and stay up late at night scanning through atlases.

"I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane. Because I'd been on a plane and there was food on board, I presumed there was a chef. I thought that would be an ideal job."

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After that childish, yet cute, notion and aspiration, Jackman went through many different phases where he wanted to pursue different things.

He knew he liked singing and dancing and starring in his school's musicals. But that was just a hobby, and a way to meet girls, Jackson admitted. Not something he thought he could turn into a career. He was also part of the rugby team at his school too.

Jackman also knew he couldn't make his job at the local 7-Eleven a career. He actually got fired from the job for being a chatterbox, so yeah, he was a born actor, he just didn't know it yet. His next move was to take a gap year and travel to England where he was hired by  Uppingham School in East Midlands as an assistant housemaster, where he taught PE and coached sports. While there he also tutored kids in English and drama.

His boss thought he would have made a great schoolmaster, but Jackman had another change of career paths.

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He started studying journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney. His plan was to become either a television news reporter or a talk show host. Other sources say he wanted to become an international journalist, which would have helped him fulfill his traveling wishes.

It wasn't until he decided to take a drama class, on a whim, that he knew maybe he'd chosen the wrong profession again. He was a few credits short and needed to take one more class to graduate.

"But I loved it. Have you ever had that feeling where you've found your people, your tribe? In that week I felt more at home with those people than I did in the entire three years at university," Jackman told the Evening Standard.

"It wasn't until I was 22 that I ever thought about my hobby being something I could make a living out of," he said in another interview. "As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that. I found the courage to stand up and say 'I want to do it.'"

He then set to work applying to the prestigious acting school, Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts and got in. He graduated in 1994, and a year later he met his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, on the set of Correlli.

Going From Theater To Screen

Early in his career, Jackman performed at London’s Royal National Theater in the play Oklahoma. It's one of his proudest moments.

"I was a kid from Australia and I had a photo outside the National Theater, which I had been to as an audience member. It was something that I had always dreamt of," he told Fast Company. "I was still unknown. I was the lead role and I could catch the bus to and from. I’d walk across Waterloo Bridge and I was at the National Theater. It was like all of my dreams: being at an amazing company doing a great show."

Jackman says that every job teaches you something, even little jobs at 7-Eleven.

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"When you first go into the workforce, your first job, whether it’s 7-Eleven or whatever it is, you realize that you’ve got a role to play—a responsibility—and people are expecting you to fulfill it. I was left with this feeling that I could make my way. I could work with my hands, my feet, and my brain."

And it did work for Jackman eventually. In 2000, with only five years of experience in the industry, he got one of his most famous roles, and he was shocked when he got it.

When he went in to audition for Logan he pretty much knew he wasn't going to get the role. He also thinks that he only got the role because Dougray Scott and Russell Crowe turned it down.

"I actually got the part nine months after I’d first auditioned for it," he told the Daily Beast. "I only went back and auditioned again after Dougray got caught up on Mission: Impossible II, so I had no idea who was going for it nor did I expect to get it.

"I never thought I was getting the part. I had no idea it was going to happen." Now he holds the Guinness World Record for "having the longest career as a live-action superhero."

Jackman is proof that you should always follow your dreams, and if you're stuck trying to decide what to do with your life, just remember that he changed careers a thousand times and still became Wolverine. He found his dream job just like Charles Xavier found mutants.

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