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I Live in NYC and im a sophomore in high school.

Basically, my real goal in life is to become a successful entrepreneur or a businessman/salesman. My grades in school arent the best and to be honest i know that getting a high school diploma is the bare minimum that i need. I had a decent part time job that paid $11 an hour now it is $13 an hour because of ny minimum wage however i had to recently quit it to give a little bit more effort in school. My idea is that i would switch out traditional high school for online highschool. My reasoning would be that the courses would be easier and i could finish my highschool diploma faster. Also if i were to do it, i could work 5 hours a day at my part time and make over 30-40k in the next two year of "highschool". Makes sense or no, i do not need the money, but it would certianlty help if i were to open a business. Also both traditional and online can still lead me to a college in worst case scenario. 

I think it's better to think about your education previously and then about work. Work and real experience are great but education is very important too. I think you should prioritize steps of your life and estimate your abilities. Will it be possible for you to manage with your school and work? A wise person is one who knows how to competently assess his capabilities

I kinda have a this mentality right now that i think there if i do things differently it may have a better long term payout in terms of value of time. But i get what your saying, there is no way i can manage school and work at the same time, tested it out. Didnt work out well.

Do you have parents or other relatives to ask their advice?

I don't know how the us schools works but the advice i can give you is that you should not to two things in the same time if it is not necessary. Because in life there is a time for study and there is a time for work, you should use your time to make some serious study then to work because later you will not have the necessary time to study.

What can studying lead me into? Jobs are getting harder to get, for ex. becoming an engineer, how much people want to become one? jobs are limited. How about becoming a teacher? the wait list for becoming a teacher is long. Doctor? Well, im not intelligent enough to become one. Thats why i want to look in the entrepreneur field and business field. Therefore having a job and getting a small income can go a long way.

Graduating from school does not always make a direct guarantee to get a job. And that's what happens in some developing countries. However, do you have to get into the business world and be willing to sacrifice good times with friends at school. Because if we rely on learning courses, I do not think you will have many friends. I think it's one of the most valuable things in life.

I didn't know there were online high school now. As long as it doesn't affect you getting into  agood college, then it sounds like a good idea.

All I can say to you brother is that do not let your grades define you as a person. Your grades in school will never be the reason why you will become a successful man someday.

You're still young though , you can have a lot of opportunities if you graduate but on the other hand that's a good mind set to be a successful businessman thumbs up to you. But a matter of fact focus on your goal same as you studying , and grades doesn't define if you are successful on the near future. Wish you all the best brother , strive and chase your dream.

On one hand, I would say that it you should make the most of the time you have in high school to build connections and learn as much as you can. High school is a great time in your life that only happens once. On the other hand, you seem to know what you want to do and how to get there. Many successful entrepreneurs focused on working early in life at the expense of everything else.

Why not open an online business? Ideally you could stay in your current  school and work on it from class. The idea of $13 as a teenager is great, but in the long run you could make more with a business.

Well that is a common dilemma for the youth today but i personally believe you should be prioritizing your education. Yeah you can earn quite an amount but after that is spent, then what? Having a good edication is worth more than what you'll earn from your job. And its looking at the long term dude

Well, start immediately and find Christmas season work in store, in sales. Only something that is attuned to the sales process. Think about what is. Shoes are a good one.

Online and easier would mean college was harder. I'll never forget being in college 1st year chemistry with no high school chem and competing with others that were doing pretty much the same thing they'd done before. Finally wound up with a 89.6 average, a B....probably worked three times as much as other people did.

But then the class that started out with 300 at the end was maybe 75.

I agree with the advice that you shouldn't do two things at one time, focus and be dedicated to one thing. My advice is school, you will find that there will always be many years ahead for you to work, but you probably won't be going to school anymore if you start working. I don't know your situation as much as you know yourself.

Start taking some business courses at local community college. High schools usually have programs that let you take certain college courses for high school and college credit. Even if you don't pursue a degree , learning about business administration would be useful. Talk to your counselor.

You will get double credits, and you will get a lot more free time as you will have free periods during the school day and will not have class at the college every day. Try to schedule these blocks at the start or the end of the day so you can either show up late or leave early daily. I would however recommend you finish high school in the traditional form while also using this method to free up some time.

Well, I strongly believe that higher education is not the worst scenario at all
If the both ways of school graduating are about to give you the same diploma, the online school is a good time-saving equivalent
But due to the fact you're having some problems with learning motivation, I'm afraid you'e going to make your marks even worse
I mean you're be too tired, busy, unwilling to study, breaking homework deadlines and so on. you know what I mean))

I strongly recommend that you stay in school and not do the online school thing, you are going to miss a lot of experiences and opportunities with girls and friendships and perhaps if you try hard enough you can get a scholarship to Harvard ... why not? , Money always comes and go but true friends are forever.

Prioritize yourself! First finish school, then go to work! Work is enough for everyone, online training is not effective, and few people take it seriously, and then you will not even have the strength to get behind it, it’s like chasing two rabbits, first complete what started and then there will be work.

you will not get the knowledge that you could get on the spot in school, all the same school knowledge is a decent crust, you should not lose it.

You do not need to ask for advice, take responsibility for your life, and do as you want and how convenient.

This is a good thought, but since I'm in the same position as OP what do you think about my point of view. I'm a CS student and I work for few companies in a related industry, I'm planning to quit and focus solely on work while trying to get as much knowledge as I can and start a company for a service I've been thinking this last year, what do you think is it worth it?

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School is really important if you are trying to go to become something you can't just learn at home, doctor or a lawyer instead. For me personally, I wouldn't mind employing a programmer or someone who does online marketing if they are skilled since that can be learned and you can become really good without a degree.

I don't know but If I'm your parents I would have you finish your high school or even college before pursuing your dreams. Well, that's what I learn from parents though, education is important.

Again, I don't know why you want to go online schooling. Much better if you go on a traditional education. So I can't give you advise though, as long as you set your goals then go for it. Good luck to you.

They say that education is you foundation, and it's true. The traditional or online courses, anything of those is fine as long you actually learned from them.

Can you combine studying with a job? 5 hours a day is not that much if you do not take extra work home - you can study in the evening. I guess, there should be such an option. Or you can work in the evening after your classes.

Grades aren't important. The main thing is desire

lol you cant even make 30k$ for 10 years with that rate in 5 hours a day maybe you should learn more in Math 😂

You dont need a money but your thinking already having a business?sounds contradicting.

But seriously?Studies is much important than a money you could ever had in work this soon because diploma is our weapon when we had a family to support in future

I think it is possible to study and work at the same time. It both solves the problem of needing cash and having experience in the industry.

Being a working student is really the best plan for this situation. Education, especially college, is getting more expensive as the time passes by so it is a must that we can sustain our own academic expenses. Books for instance, can be bought to discount stores or you can also find its copy online. This is just one of the things you can do cut your expenses further. School is essential because it is where our hard skills are being built and flourished.

Having a job, how small and basic it is, can and will provide us experiences and lessons we can use in the next years of our time in the industry. Soft skills are being trained here and let us meet different kind of people, customers and co-workers alike. That is why you shouldn't give up studying just because it is for formality. Both soft skills and hard skills are important and essential so you can survive in this world.

I am a proud evidence that being a working student is a good and worth it plan for college. While studying BS Information Technology during the day, I work different kind of tasks online that are linked to crypto. All I earn there is more than enough to sustain my academic expenses so I can also have fun occasionally. I play online gambling (https://to.crwd.cr/cm) whenever I got the time and money to spare. Good luck! I hope OP will continue his education and be successful in the near future.

Not any difference in how you achieve your goal - to get a good education.
You are a person, and you have to decide for yourself what decision to make at the moment and at your age.
I have only one doubt - will you get less knowledge from online learning and will this not disturb you in the future?

If you are able to do these two things together then it is much better especially if you can share your time at school and work. But, if you feel unable to work on these two things at the same time you better focus on school because with an education you will get a decent job according to your last education.

I advise you to complete your studies.
If you do not find work, you can travel and work in other countries.

This is the goal of every second person on this earth

In the context of studying, all you just need to learn is how can you remember longer and understand faster, it varies from person to another, I'm a visual learner, means I'm quicker to learn if I can see what is being taught, visual presentation, graphs, charts, videos, pictures, etc. The sooner you master this the faster you can learn in school. you can also apply this on trading bitcoins, I personall recommend Bitrus to you since the visual interface is very user-friendly and the tools are designed for beginners.

Learning n visual presentation and videos is really fast, it's like a shortcut on knowing things just like what i did when im studying cryptocurrency trading. You mentioned Bitrus exchange ? I haven't heard of this yet, do you have their website link ?

Education is very necessary, but survive too, it all depends on what you want to study, if you want to be an entrepreneur it is best to read some Warren Buffet books, is a great investor and has an impressive vision of business, if you want to speculate in the market, read books Wyckoff and Jesse Livermore, are great in their advice and you learn a lot.

Nice concept it advisable you concentrate more on your education in other to make good grades and pass your business school exams to becoming a great entrepreneur as you have dreamed to be, life is a raise always get your self ready for the future because that is what matters most.

If you don't care about what your parents or your friends say to you then my recommendation is to just quit high school. Its useless and it's not going to help you with absolutely anything to achieve your goals. Also, forget about a college because it's even more useless then a high school unless you want to become a doctor or something like that where you need to learn how to do it. If you read stories from successful businessman you will see that most of them made it on their own without high school or college.

You are right. Time management is essential to a person's success.
If you organize your work and study time you will be a successful person.

It is really important to have an education and also a degree holder because there are some countries that most basing to their education when it comes of hiring an employee not basing in their skills that they have just like here in our country. Sad to say but that is true don't know it we will have a good government that can give us job even if we are not done in college but have a lot of skills.