If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?
A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.
I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.
I was $4,000 short on my first payroll.
It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.
I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.