[Porsche-O-Phile]

Paper routes when I was 11, started a p/t job at a restaurant when I was 14 and worked some kind of job either part of full time continuously all the way through Junior High, HS, college and graduate school until 2009 when I was "involuntarily unemployed" for about a year. I'm still recovering from that one (another couple of years before a bunch of defaults that resulted drop off my credit report) but largely have bounced back pretty well otherwise. Had a good amount saved - it all got wiped out in 2009-10 - all of it. I've rebuilt about 80% of what I had since. Hasn't been easy though.