I'm going to tell you what your parents should have. You're a smart, motivated person who needs to rise beyond where you're at now. To get there, you need to either go to school full time or work full time. Either way, you need to utilize the CAD skills you were fortunate enough to pick up in secondary school.

If you go the school route, you need to use your CAD skills and get a relatively high-paying, flexible job (and stop working long hours for relatively low pay). Good companies would recognize your skills and do everything they could to keep you around (including flexible scheduling, paying for your school, and putting you on a career track). You don't realize it, but you're smarter and more motivated than the vast majority of your peers. Finish school as fast as you can and get that BA or BS under your belt. You can always do a graduate or technical degree later. The fact that you'll have been working a professional job while earing your degree will put you light years ahead of your fellow students when you transition to the full time working world.

Trust me that it's better to get the undergraduate degree under your belt. If, however, you put that on hold and work full time now, use your CAD skills and make the most of a lucrative industry. Working full time, you'd be able to move away from home and begin working toward long term financial security.

Whatever you choose, take the time to soak up every last, fleeting moment of your youth. Getting laid and making life-long friends should be prioritized right behind finishing school.

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Michael

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