@John Moorhouse Hey fellow Buffalonian, i grew up in and around Buffalo. My man, do not leave highschool. You have to look at the bigger picture. Throughout my young life i've changed what I wanted to do many times. In the moment I was sure i was going to be something without a doubt in my mind. BUT you will change and value things differently. Without a highschool degree, life becomes harder. Get your education, spend a few years learning and stalking these forums. Save up your money and get a part time job and build good saving habits. Investing in yourself is the best move you can make in life.
Say you graduated HS and then you went to college and got a degree in something desirable. You get a job out of college and make 50-60k. You want to jump into REI right away but it'll be much harder to scale quickly and you'll have no fall back if REI doesn't work out. But say you save 60% of your money from your job whatever that may be. You're going to have so much more potential to scale at this point. So now you have a job that if REI didn't work you'd make money anyways and if REI does work then if you save enough and be smart you have the possibility of retiring.
You have a ton of successful people posting in this thread, listen to them. If you want to make money and be wealthy, copy those who are already there.
