Pretty much you can’t get very far without an education.  This isn’t just a personal opinion, but I think it’s fact.  I know there are always exceptions and I’m sure some people are millionaires (idk who, just assuming).

I don’t think I would be where I am without an education.  Not so much I am where I am BECAUSE of my education, but where my education led me to.  When I would have job interviews, they would ask the usual “what classes are you taking this semester” and.. well, that’s pretty much the main question about school I would be asked.  Sometimes I wonder what it would be like for an employer to hand me a piece of paper and say “integrate to find the value of x.. when x^26”. Sorry, I had to. I suppose for them to feel assured I’m in school, but the question that was consistently asked during my interviews was “tell me about your internship”.  A lot of jobs nowadays look for working experience from an employer and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have gotten that internship without being in school.

I remember in 8th grade, I wanted to be an architect.  I’ve always been the
“planner” type, which is why all throughout high school I enrolled in CAD classes.  I even went to a technology school for drafting and design.  Did it help me get to where I am now? Ehhh, kinda.  I still use CAD which helped me out with what I’m doing now as an engineer, but I’m not an architect. 

The sad thing about education is even with it, you’re limited to what you can do.  You’re told you need to have a certain GPA to get into certain colleges and you need to have a minimum grade of a C- as a prerequisite.  Yeah, it sucks. But you take your education and you run with it.  It’s not so much about what you learn, that only gets you to have a job in your major, but an education is what you make of it.  The harder you work, the more paths and opportunities you’ll be able to have.  It’s a foundation to get you where you could be, not where you should, would, want, need, or must be.  That’s in your hands.