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Why a payslip separates you and me

The day you give up your pay slip could very well be the day that you become a nonentity. In the eyes of commercial banks, at least.

Of all the nuggets of wisdom I have heard dispensed about venturing into the unknown, aka entrepreneurship, none has proved to be more apt than what a friend told me about how difficult commercial institutions find it to categorise you when you no longer have a payslip.

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