How old were you when you left school and what did you do?

I graduated high school a few months early by taking what they used to call a Graduation Challenge Test. You could take that test when you'd earned all your required credits and didn't mind missing your formal graduation ceremony. I got married a few months later. I'd been working at my uncle's tailor shop for almost 3 years at that point, so I had money, but soon after we married, my wife and I moved some distance away. But I had no trouble finding work, and I also started college.
 

I graduated high school in 1975 at the age of 17. During the next few years, I jumped around from job to job. I did some construction work, worked in factories, I worked at a 7-11 for a while... There wasn't much going on in the small town where I lived and it was tough to find anything decent.

At the age of 20, I moved down to Houston with a friend of mine. I'd never been there but another friend had gone down there and did pretty well for himself working as a welder, but he came back after a few months. He had family to come back to and a nice house, so it was just an adventure for him. I was living on my own and just barely scraping by. There were a few times when I had no money even for a loaf of bread, and went to bed hungry. It seemed to me that there was no way it could be any worse than what I was going through at the time, working in a factory earning just above minimum wage, driving a piece of crap car that had the quarter panels rusted out and leaked oil like a sieve, and living in an old house that was converted into apartments. I think my rent was like $140 a month. It was a slum.

So we went to Houston and stayed at a YMCA. During the day, we went out and searched for work. I found a job in an equipment rental yard. I was hired to do maintenance on the machinery but took an interest in helping out with repairs, so eventually, under the tutelage of the other mechanics, I became a mechanic. I did that kind of work until I was 28 at which time I moved to Colorado and decided to go to college.

End of Chapter 2
 
Fourteen was the age that I left school, but that is only a technicality. Just short of my fifteenth birthday I was knocked down on a pedestrian crossing, it shattered my right leg, causing me to recuperate in a specialist hospital for nigh on three years.

The deputy head teacher would bring my school work, he was a bright fellow, years later I learned that he would spend time studying every subject that he could answer my questions, I owe much to him, in fact, without his help I would never have made it into college.
 
Quit school at 16......got a full time job.
Was told there wasn't any money for any college after grade 12.....so i quit school.
Don't take me the wrong way and i'm not boasting.....wrote very few exams.....was exempted from most of them.....really bored at school.
So.....quit the boredom.
 
After graduating high school, I tried college for one year and got the boot. It seems like you had to attend classes or something instead of shooting pool at the billiard hall. Worked a few crappy jobs then joined the Air Force. Got out with my head screwed on relatively straight. Got an Associates in electronics and worked, worked and worked and now I’m done.
 
I graduated high school.... Mom made me get a job.....I did.....A very nice job.....I loved typing.....So I found a ware house in our town.
A lovely lady, a little older then me...I was a fast typist .....It was just her and me in the office.....I worked there for a couple of years....
I then got married and stayed home with my 2 kids....Hubby worked in New York City....We sent our two kids to college and I decided
to work in a High School in the front office....I stayed there for 25 years.....Both kids are married now ....Both have 2 kids each.....
Me and hubby are still together....We are both in our seventies... Jeez.........
 
I left home at 18 or 19 with my then boyfriend, and we ran off to Las Vegas and got married. Against my parents wishes. My sister told me that my Dad cried as I was leaving.

My husband was a craps dealer, and I had a fake ID to gamble. We had fun. Met a lot of interesting people...

Came home after a couple of years and that's when things happened..

Read my book 'Dazed and Confused' ................jk
 
Finished 5 years of High School at 16 and won a scholarship to continue studying at Sydney University.
I was too young and managed to fail my second year disastrously, so I went to Teachers College for one year and became a science/maths teacher at 20 years of age. Married the same year and had a baby.

Everything came at me before I was ready but I stuck it out and made the best of it all. No major regrets.
 
Left secondary school at 17 and went to university to study electrical & electronic engineering. Dismayed to find that this was mainly maths.
After that, I continued to work in the Uni's Atomic & Molecular Physics department, designing and building test rigs for the Phd research programmes. Married at 22 and got a job with IBM as a final test engineer on the 3033 mainframes and then into software development when the manufacturing was moved to France..
 

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