Tatsadasayago wrote:
On the flip-side, I've worked with people who knew their job/trade to the nth detail, but it was all they knew and they were often tripped up when a solution required 'thinking outside the box'.
Jim
This is an amazing skill, to be able to resolve unsual problems, I have not-real-twin daughters, and when doing homework, I would always try to present a problem from a different angle than the one taught at school, one would give up, the other would real concentrate and think about the puzzle and succeed. Working on old jeep is about the same, at least for the guys with white hair - or the bald ones- when we started to fix those dinosaurs, there was no internet, the Haynes of the TSM which are not too explicit and have a few errors, but we managed and sometimes I feel sorry for the people asking question on the forums, 1) obviously they have not thought about the issue(s) and 2) they have not even bothered to search the forums, all to say that education depends on your family, peers, and mentors.
Why I am writing all that.!!! ...do not give up, study many things and at one point being in any environment you will find your way, enjoy life because it goes a bit too fast...
So back to our schedule program, as said previously avoid expensive colleges, most of them are in the business of making money for the board not to educate, it is sad to see people in debts for years. You can learn a foreign language and study abroad, even in France where education is fairly inexpensive, some families are saving a bundle by sending their kids to colleges in Poland, where is the saving, the trip back home on low-cost airline is cheaper that the regional train ride, and on top housing is less.... I won't mention the entertainement, you are still in HS.