Good life choice yes or no? 10 PTS?

- I think you are looking for justification to avoid college. You read one website that matches your desires, and ignore thousands of websites, many that are objective, that do not agree with your desire. Then you look for agreement to the silliness on sites like this. Simply look at statistics. College grads as a group make more money, are happier in their careers, more likely to be employed, are more likely to purchase homes, have more successful children, and are healthier. These are facts. Plain and simple. Ignore them if you want and go for the "lottery" win of making money like Buffet. But bear in mind, Buffet graduated college at age nineteen. And Buffet's significant employees are all college grads. Buffet also made his fortune investing OTHER peoples money, not his own. Do you actually think that even Buffet would have become a multi-millionaire investing the balance of income left over after expenses of a minimum wage? And if you think teachers are brainwashing students, wait until you work for a boss that employs people at minimum wage. And a teacher that pisses you off only affects a very small part of your life for the length of one class. See what happens when your minimum wage boss pisses you off. As to your other excuses, you can avoid these by: getting a degree in an employable discipline, working your way through college to avoid debt (many do, you know), and not getting emotionally motivated (pissed off) by opposing ideas. But you already know those things. Personally, I hope you pursue your plan. My kids are attending college (debt free, by the way), and every person that thinks like you is another person that will NEVER compete with my kids for a well-paying job. No, not really. Go to college. After you graduate, you can still pursue your minimum wage job plans if you so desire.

Where is the love ?

There are several errors in your thinking. Let's start with Warren Buffet. He DID go to college. No only did he get a Bachelor's degree, he then went on for a Master's degree. Next, your take on what college is about. It's not a trade school. Except for certain professions, like high school or elementary school teaching or nursing, college is not set up to prepare you for any specific career. It is set up to make you an educated, informed, more worldly, grown up! At college you will meet people who think differently from you, have different backgrounds, and don't agree with you. You'll be presented with ideas different from your own, some radically different from your own. You have to learn to deal with all those things. By doing so, you become a grown up. I also live in NYC. I moved here to come to NYU. At NYU I learned far more from my fellow students outside of class then I did IN the classroom, but our conversations were formed by work INSIDE the classroom. As far as jobs go, yes it is currently hard for college grads to find jobs. But that's because they don't want the to work the kinds of jobs that high school grads can get. First of all, there are even fewer jobs for high school grads! Second of all, the jobs that don't require a college degree don't pay enough to live on - certainly not here in NYC. And, while the pay may sound good to someone who is 17 years old, it's not going to seem like much when you are in your 40s! As for investing money, where will you get the money to invest? You won't make enough to pay for your rent, food, electric, etc., let alone ALSO have money left to invest in the stock market. Finally, people LOOSE money in the stock market, too - all the time! If you are rich, and have money to loose, you can make money. But you have to be able to afford to loose some of it. A working stiff can't afford the investment to begin with, and certainly can't afford to loose that investment. In short, bad idea!