What were some of Sir Isaac Newton's other jobs before he was a scientist?

Question

Well he wasn't born a scientist!!!

Answer 1

As warden and then master of the mint, Newton drew a large income, as much as £2,000 per annum, a considerable sum in those days. During the great recoinage, there was need for him to be actively in command. Above all, he was interested in counterfeiting. He became the terror of London counterfeiters, sending a number to the gallows and finding in them a socially acceptable target on which to vent the rage that continued to well up within him.

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Answer 2

He went to Cambridge at 19 and before that it doesn't seem that he had done any job.
After becoming a scientist he was a member of the parliament (although not very active). Later he was warden of the Royal Mint supervising a great recoinage. He also wrote about religion and alchemy but all of this after becoming a scientist (or better a natural philosopher as it was called back then).

Answer 3

He was removed from school, and by October 1659, he was to be found at Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, where his mother, widowed by now for a second time, attempted to make a farmer of him. He was, by later reports of his contemporaries, thoroughly unhappy with the work. It appears to have been Henry Stokes, master at the King's School, who persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his education. This he did at the age of eighteen, achieving an admirable final report.

Answer 4

~He emptied chamber pots as a boy and worked as a groom's apprentice as an adolescent. In fact, his interest in science was born from the discussions he had with students and faculty at the Peterhouse College (one of the colleges at Cambridge University) stables. His fate as a physicist was sealed when he hired on at chief groom on Sir Francis Bacon's estate and Bacon essentially adopted him.