[jtnak]

Fucking drop out of school now, it's a waste of time in general and if you manage your money right, you could end up ahead of everyone who pays huge school fees working at Wal-Mart for minimum wage, or some other kind of shitty job like that.

E: Frankly I don't care about your predicament, but the fact that you wrote this on the internet says something about you. There are several ways to interpret it, and none of them are good.

2E: I graduated half a year early and had a great vacation for a couple of weeks thanks to my parents but otherwise didn't do too much. I think it was better than high school. HTH

[ryanwaggoner]

This is horrible advice. High-school dropouts who leave school at 16 or 17 because they think it's a waste of time rarely end up ahead of anyone, and certainly not by "managing their money right", whatever that means. You scorn a minimum-wage job at Wal-Mart, but where do you realistically expect someone without even a high-school diploma to get a great job? And how would he explain the fact that he had done really well in high school and challenged himself, then decided to quit so close to the finish line? I can't believe I'm even bothering to respond to this drivel.

And you bothered to leave a comment, so you apparently threw in the barb about not caring just to be an asshole. Classy.

the fact that you wrote this on the internet says something about you. There are several ways to interpret it, and none of them are good.

On the other hand, there's only one way for me to interpret your comment: you're an ignorant troll.

[nostrademons]

"where do you realistically expect someone without even a high-school diploma to get a great job?"

Netscape. ;-)

[tsally]

The world is different now. Things rarely work that way anymore. Also, if he were as good of a programmer as jwz he certainly wouldn't be asking for advice.