 From the age of five, when he got his first job as a paper boy, he worked a variety of jobs including candy maker, a soda jerk, a temp at the post office, a hops picker, a longshoreman, a teamster, a lifeguard, an ambulance driver, among other things.Jackson graduated from San Francisco's Abraham Lincoln High School.He earned a law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.