Comment for Education or Occupation  Category:(Serious Advice) Created:(10/14/2002 10:27:00 PM) This post has been Viewed (455 times) You say your problem is really simple? Well, the answer is simple too, but you're not going to like it: You can't quit now! At 15 (almost 16) you need parental permission to work in most places (I own my own business, so I know!). If you want to do something with writing, that's great, but you need to have a good command of English. I counted six errors in your post (spelling, and grammar), and I (as an example) will never hire anyone who can't spell or use good English. If you want to be a Journalist, you need those skills, too! I was a reporter for three years in California, and my editor told me that if he saw a staff writer who kept making mistakes in his stories, that person got fired! GED is okay, but to a lot of employers, it signifies someone who didn't have the patience to stick it out for 4 years; if you can't do that, how do we know you can stay with a job? Your best bet right now is to stay in school and get good grades. You may think it's boring and has little to do with the "real world" but that's where you're wrong! Take a page of classified ads and go through them and see which jobs require more education than high school and which don't. The ones that don't are the ones which pay the worst, and if you do that work you'll never be financially independent! Even if you join the Army or any of the Armed Forces, you'll never get above the rank of Sergeant without a High School Diploma! If you want to get the big bucks in this world, you have to have an education. Anyone who tells you different is selling something! My advice is if you've already dropped out, go right into the school office and say, "I made a mistake, and I want to correct it. I want to make something of myself. Will you help me?" If you're embarrassed, so what? If you haven't dropped out, get cracking on those grades! Remember this: The world is full of failures who have excuses, but no one listens to them! The stories you see on TV are success stories! So, really, the choice is simple: do you want to be a success, or a failure? You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click here Scroll all the way down to read replies. Spring is coming