My son in law had to be an A student in order to go to college at all in someplace like Austria. Then the government paid for his college education and he had to pay his living expenses. However, if you are not an A student you might never be allowed to go to college (at least many or most places in Europe).
However, in some place like California if you drop out of school at 14 or 15 you can go to a community college by age 18 and get your GED. Two of my kids got GEDs by the way and one of them is a lawyer in Oregon now and married to another lawyer there.
Another daughter got her GED and went to college and then trained to be a video editor for documentaries and movies. The point is there is no reason at all really to ever stop your education in California because there are just so many community colleges and State Universities and University of California and private colleges that there is no real reason to ever stop taking college classes unless you want to.
In other words "The SKY IS THE LIMIT" OR (THERE IS NO LIMIT) TO HOW FAR YOU CAN GO IN CALIFORNIA.
So, many people go to college throughout their lives.
For example, by the time I was 42 years old I had an equivalent of 8 years of college already even though I owned two or more businesses at the time.
So, there is no reason at all to stop learning things you are interested in ever unless you want to stop which many people don't want to stop so they keep learning new things to help them make money or to enrich their lives in all sorts of ways.
This is just a part of the life of Coastal Californians especially from San Diego to San Francisco. I think it is a part of the ocean culture within about 20 or 30 miles of the ocean throughout California.
So, even when I went to Glendale High school in 1963 to 1965 I owned a 1956 Ford Station wagon I called my Surf Wagon and went surfing on weekends or whenever I could with my friends and I also liked body surfing and boogie boarding and Scuba diving too and at one point I wanted to be an oceanographer like Jacques Cousteau especially in the 1950s, and 1960s.
So, the sky is the limit in California regarding how far you can go to make a success of your life in any way you can think of.
By God's Grace
Later:
I worked for my father at his electrical business starting off and on when I was 10 on weekends. By the time I was 12 I worked fairly regularly for him during the summers and I often got other jobs after school working for various companies starting at about 15 or 16. I worked for a while after school making sliding glass doors with mirrors in them for closets until I realized the grinding machinery wasn't safe there because I almost lost a finger because it didn't have safety devices in place then in 1963 so I quit that job realizing it wasn't safe enough for me to work there. However, I only ground in about 1/4 inch into one finger which healed fast because I was young. So, no permanent damage done.
So, my 1956 Ford Station Wagon I bought mostly with my own money from working for my father and other people at various jobs after school and summers. So, within a month of getting my driver's license at age 16 the day I turned 16 I bought a car only a month later and have owned one or more cars all the time since I was 16 years old. This made my life much more mobile for surfing and scuba diving and dating girls starting at age 16 when my first girlfriend was a girl from church who was 21 years old. Looking back now I wonder why my parents approved of me dating a 21 year old girl when I was 16 but I think it likely that they wanted me to be with someone in our church more than anything else then. She and I stayed friends throughout our lives even though I left that church at age 21 because of the general hypocrisy I found in churches everywhere. Then nature became my church so if I want to visit God now I go to the ocean or Yosemite National Park or I go to Mt. Shasta or Hawaii or something like this.
What working this much very young taught me most is that I wanted to own my own business or businesses because I usually felt taken advantage of financially except when I worked for my father.
So, by my late 20s I started businesses or bought businesses to support my wife and children. And of course I also took business courses along the way in Bookkeeping and Business Law and Computer Science and eventually Psychology, Social Psychology, Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy which taught me a lot about what it actually is to be a human being here on earth.
God is where you find him (her, the being everywhere).
By God's Grace
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