I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.
I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.
The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.
I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.
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.
I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.
I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.
I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.