<prompt> Human: Hello,Ill try to keep it short. I went to a college preparatory boarding school on a scholarship, dropped out after the 11th grade, got a GED, and for the last 3 years have done almost nothing, very few jobs and dropping out of college a few times after only days of attending each time. I went through a lot of family issues starting in middle school and it consumed my life.My grandmother is sort of offering to pay for a university education wherever I go. I feel like its a waste of time and money. I wouldnt be accepted into anywhere decent. I live in a shitty state and our only real universities are either extremely competitive or extremely expensive. The others are no-name shitholes.I keep having this idea of learning bookkeepingaccounting and getting a job as a bookkeeper so I can actually have an income. I have this idea of reading lots of books on money, finance textbooks, successful business meninvestors, and going into finance with no formal education.I feel like college is a waste of time. I dont want to be poor. I want to be wealthy through something really big, and Ive never seen someones college degree be the reason for their wild success. I dont want to pay too much to read books I dont want to read, eat food I dont want to eat, and share a room I dont want to live in with someone I dont like. I just dont see the pay off.I have about 1,000 in cash and I could buy loads of reading materialI dont like reading on computer screens and begin to become knowledgeable on financeaccountingbusinessmoneysuccess. Maybe if I had a scholarship, Id go to university as some backup, but I currently dont see the appeal at all. I want to be in charge of my life. I dont want someone paying for my university education, and I dont want to go just because other people want me to for no reason. I want to be a big boy and read what I think will help me and do what I think will benefit me. I dont like the idea of university but I dont know if Im all wrong here. Ive read all of the wikis over and over again.Im blabbing on and probably didnt get my point across, but what do you think?this is my current book list in no specific order if I was to go through with this The Accounting Game or Accounting Made Simple Principles of Corporate Finance Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Margin of Safety The Snowball Business Adventures The Richest Man In Babylon Market Wizards The New Market Wizards The Money Masters The New Money Masters No Bull Den of Thieves Confessions of a Street Addict Confidence Game Fooling Some of the People All of the Time The Smartest Guys in the Room The Millionaire Mind The Millionaire Next Door already read some of this Trading To Win Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Barbarians at the Gate  <response>: It sounds like you have a nobody is going to tell me what to do disposition and it is preventing you from moving on with your life. I assure you people who have worked hard and forked over a lot of money to achieve their education goals do not feel it was a waste, and neither do the people who employ them. If you want the type of job that requires a college degree, youll have to get a college degree. If you dont want that type of job, there are plenty of good-paying jobs that do not require degrees. Good luck to you. 