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I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

I never once had a regular paycheck. Not for more than six weeks in a row and for the most part not even that. I still haven't. The notion of some whistling kid with a mail cart coming down the hall and handing me my weekly paycheck is something I've only seen in Matthew Broderick movies.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.

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.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.