I would take the opportunity to build something yourself. If you're young and in school chances are you don't have any big financial concerns. This is a great t

I would take the opportunity to build something yourself. If you're young and in school chances are you don't have any big financial concerns. This is a great time to try to build and sell your own products, something which becomes much more difficult when you have to pay rent. I'm speaking from experience too as it was in high school that I started selling my own software and my services as a freelancer. I didn't make a huge amount of money (although it seemed huge as my reference was a £50pw supermarket job) but I had a lot of fun, much more than I've ever had working at a company, and continued it for a few years after high school. This also gives you the freedom to make mistakes, tackle problems you're interested in/expand your knowledge in areas where you are weak, and it looks great on your CV when you do actually need a job (despite 'average' skills I was able to get very well paid dev jobs without a college degree). Secondary to the above it gives you some basic business and marketing/sales skills which always come in handy.