high school drop out story

[SoulRiser]

Tara sent me this:

Quote:A friend introduced me to your site.

For starters, keep up the hard work.

Second, I wanted to share my story so that you cn repost it however you see fit.

I was always one of the highest grades in my class, loved learning and therefore put up with school. But in the 9th grade when I was being taught things I literally learned in 2nd grade and was told to "deal with it", I started skipping class. I was bored, the people were shallow, the teachers disrespectful and I had too much respect for myself to subject myself to that.

I missed so many days that I was failing most of my classes (except the few that I found interesting enough to attend). My mom made an appointment with the dean to discuss my "catching up". He didn't even know I wasn't attending! Once it was brought to his attention, he then said he "had to" expel me for the rest of the year. Darn.

Well we decided to unschool from there. I got my GED but it was a waste of time as I have never needed to show it for anything I've ever done. When I was almost 19 I decided to go to massage school and went from there into working for myself as a therapist, making my own schedule, seting my own fees, etc. From there I went on to open my own massage business, hiring others to work for me, learning accounting, bookkeeping, contracts, scheduling, licensing, promotionals, etc without every taking a biz course or class or cracking a book.

I sold my business to be a stay-at-home mom and unschool my 8 year old son.

I'm telling you all of this to prove that all you need to be successful is self-motivation and a passion for something. Oh and a little common sense, which you won't learn in school! (School's tell you what to think; they don't teach you how to think!)

The best advice I could give anyone is to ignore the BS, do your best to get out of it if you can and if not, remember that once you're out, you never have to look back. Find something you love and ignore the people who try to rain on your parade. Focus on what you want, not what you don't want, and work towards *your* goals, not someone else's.


Tara
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[Hanny's Old Account]

I loves you.

That#s a really cool story. It gives me hope.

My friend skived as a one-off yeasterday and now he's in a lot of toruble. he's off the rails anyway, though. Nice kid.

[SmokinStickySticky]

yup

[PIMP.]

Not only is Tara awesome but shes also got massage skillz. Too bad shes married with a kid... :(

[The Apathy]

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