By age 17 I had my computer service business and I was hiring kids from my school to hand out flyers for me .. and by 17 and a half years old I had graduated high school early a half-year early so I could focus my computer service and web design business.
I even got a little 250 sq ft office across the street from my old elementary school playground. I spent more than one night in this office while trying to figure out how to make enough money to survive. I remember many a night walking the grass where I used to play and looking at the office from across the street thinking one day I will remember this struggle and appreciate my great successes.
The funny thing about the office, is it was like the setting of a sitcom.. With a whole cast of characters that lived around my office or that would come to visit me.. While I was working towards my future.
Everything from a guy named Richard who used to model in Hollywood, married an Heiress, owned a helicopter company and did developments .. but was now living in poverty due to some poor choices. To the landlord lady that would come down into my office, in a bathrobe and curlers and ask me if I could open a jar of pickles.