THE WALL Education...

So for whatever reason you are thinking about dropping out of high school. This is still a bad idea even if you are about to become independently wealthy. If you are a regular shmo, this terrible idea. No high school diploma equals, cleaning lady, laborer and fast food guy. Not that anything is wrong with these professions but ask any of them if that is how the plan to spend the rest of their lives. Room for advancement- forget about it. A person with a high school diploma may be pretty sharp but that is not the point. The point is completing something. High school can be pretty dismal but you can survive it. Now if you want to make better money some post high school training or college is going to be necessary. College for the most part, is a weed out tool employers use. For whatever reason they want somebody with a degree and they are willing to pay extra for it for the most part. A young guy is the IT field making nice bucks now with out a degree may think he does not need it and in the short run he does not. But when he is 45 with no degree competing against younger people with his same knowledge and a degree it does not take a Las Vegas odds maker to figure who will win out. Yeah yeah I know your brother's cousin's sister in law made it big with no formal education at all. There are exceptions to every rule! But if you want the odds maker on your side, finish high school and then some...