[rottenapple]

This topic makes me wonder if it isn't just better to skip highschool and work manual labor for 6 years, put all the money you earn into stocks and watch it grow afterwards. If you have a normal family situation, you won't have costs (parents pay food, house, etc.) and high school was pretty much a huge waste of time anyway. You could do 5-hours work a day, 2- hours of study (enough to keep up with the average if you are fairly intelligent and do 2 hours of social activities afterwards (play football or something). After 5 years, you can do a one year study hard scheme to get a degree, with the discipline you have from working it could be possible. You go to college normally then for let's say 6 years, which gives your earned income from the first 5 years already between 7-12 years to grow.