I got a job to do 2 days on "As The World Turns" when I was seventeen and I worked 2 fourteen-hour days. I made $800.00 on it and then I was contacted by an AFTRA union rep. saying that I had to join and that it would cost me $834.00

So I had a net-loss of $34.00 from doing "As The World Turns" (laughs).

http://ew.com/tv/2017/08/07/james-van-der-beek-looks-back/