[havoc2005]

High School is completely irrelevant in life if your goals will not correlate with the years of geography, history, and literature you have to put up with. However, in your situation you will want to do good but get out as soon as humanly possible. If you can somehow take extra classes over the summer or self study and skip grades that would be idea. Go to college, network your ass off, but don't depend on college to make you any more satisfied then highschool has. With that being said, finish college as soon as possible as well, again, the key here is to network and meet as many people in your desired career field/goal as possible and then take huge risks. Use your high school and college degrees as fall backs in case you ever fail in life and are too burned out to continue.

[runjake]

I disagree. Geography, history and literature take up a rather significant part of this "old guy's" hobby time.

The seeds for these were planted by particularly good teachers in HS.

[havoc2005]

Well, to clarify, I'm a huge geography, history, and literature geek. I believe that, for the sake of reforming our educational system, less focus needs to be placed on classic literature and maybe have a better redefined and effective geography and history curriculum which covers more in less time. Less repetition throughout the years on those subjects and more focus on more practical subjects such as finance, business, career analysis, and IT. If you feel the need to progress your education in those other subjects beyond the amount that will give you general knowledge, then you can always self study as I have. I'm not downplaying the importance, just saying that the education system puts too much focus on it.