Flipping Burgers Leads to Fulfilling Careers

As college graduates face the worst job market since the Great Depression, some will have to start their careers at the bottom of the ladder. Even with a college degree in hand, flipping hamburgers is a potential job, although not much of a career move.

Or is it? For many people, a fast-food job is a memory from high school that they'd rather forget. But for others, flipping burgers was just the start up the ladder in the fast-food industry. From wearing hairnets, washing dishes and cashiering to managing and eventually owning their own restaurant, here are two tales of fast-food workers who turned a job into a career and have some advice for young professionals who are flipping burgers.

-- See average salaries for jobs at Burger King Corporation.