Home schooling in my jurisdiction carries absolutely no reporting obligation, so after registering for that I didn't need to do anything in particular. I got m

Home schooling in my jurisdiction carries absolutely no reporting obligation, so after registering for that I didn't need to do anything in particular. I got my first job through a combination of meeting my boss at a meetup, and knowing somebody who worked for him. I started working at 17. My first week there, I learned AngularJS (by porting a vanilla javascript application). By my second week, I was already leading a project which was delivered ahead of schedule. Without Wikipedia and the Free Software Foundation I would probably not have had it as easy. Job success is mainly about a combination of basic mental health and general intelligence. If you have these two things, you can make it in software. I think it also helped that I had a fairly mature outlook and lifestyle by then. It also probably helped that I looked like a goofy adult and not just a mature adolescent. From time to time I wonder what life might have been if I stayed through high school and actually tried (I was a very bad student in primary school). I probably can't go to law school, though in some jurisdictions I could study independently to practice law; I almost certainly couldn't go into medicine. In a way, even though I am young enough to change course in life, a number of doors are closed because I did not go to high school. As for me, I like my life a lot.