I just decided that I wasn't going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn't afford it anyway, so I left school very early and went to work and progressively did things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.
I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.
I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.
At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.
I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.
Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.