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Tom Herman, center, poses with athletic director Mike Perrin, left, and school president Gregory Fenves, right, during a news conference where he was introduced at Texas' new head NCAA college football coach, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016, in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Tom Herman, center, poses with athletic director Mike Perrin, left, and school president Gregory Fenves, right, during a news conference where he was introduced at Texas' new head NCAA college football coach,

ATLANTA, GA - DECEMBER 31: Head coach Tom Herman of the Houston Cougars has Gatorade dumped on him in honor of their 38-24 win over the Florida State Seminoles during the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at the Georgia Dome on December 31, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

ATLANTA, GA - DECEMBER 31: Head coach Tom Herman of the Houston Cougars has Gatorade dumped on him in honor of their 38-24 win over the Florida State Seminoles during the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at the Georgia

New Texas football coach Tom Herman has followed a long and winding career path to his new job. 

Long before he started his football career, Herman had a varied job history understandable for a college student scrambling to pay his bills. 

Brad Townsend of the Dallas Morning News had an interesting story that detailed the scope of Herman's hustling -- long before he started pocketing his current salary of $5 million per year with the Longhorns.

Herman listed nine different jobs he had before he started coaching. Some of them probably paid better than his first coaching job in 2008.

The most interesting? 

How about his short stint at Subway that was ended because he got caught eating too much pastrami? 

When Herman was in high school in Simi Valley, Calif., Herman took advantage of all the perks of working at the noted sandwich shop.

And it wasn't just eating cookies and smelling the fresh buns baking all the time, either. 

His tenure there ended after about six months after an unfortunate binge he can joke about today. 

"I used to love the pastrami," Herman told the News. "They had those big walk-in refrigerators. I was standing in there on day, with the door shut, just throwing pastrami in my mouth.

"I was like something out of a movie. I've got this bin of meat, throwing meat in my mouth, the door swings open and it's the owner.

"He goes, 'Get out. Don't come back.' "

Herman had several media-related jobs during his so-called "hungry years," including stints as a public address announcer at California Lutheran College and a production assistant in FOX's broadcasts of NFL games. 

But with the riches from his new UT contract, he'll probably never have to worry about gorging himself on pastrami again. 

That is, if he still even has a taste for it after his short Subway career. 

Tgriffin@express-news.net

Twitter: @TimGriffinBig12

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