more advice...
"pay attention in class, study, get great grades, and GO TO COLLEGE so you can get a great paying job and buy a home!!!!" cause umm C's are good and all, and Community College for one semester is good and all, and you can f&ck off and doing nothing is great and all but when you're 32 living in a small apartment watching HGTV in envy, you'll wish you had..."
I must argue the above, and also add the argument, as advice to the young-- at least something to think about.
Unfortunately, the advice that college will lead to a better job is misleading. "Some" fields pay well, many pay just as poorly as high school graduates are able to make. An English degree will get you a barista job at
Starbucks. Many HS grads who get jobs with Unions, as Plumbers and Electricians make much more money than your average college graduate they also have far more free time. Also, many people who make C's make more than those who buckled down to work and had no social life. In the end, having connections and friends is more important than getting good grades.
Buying a house is also not all it is hyped to be either. You get stuck in an area, unable to move to follow employment opportunities. Right now people are loosing equity, and having to abandon houses because they can't even sell them for as much as they bought them for. -- I own a house, I am getting rid of it now, and I will never, ever buy another. You totally have to pay much more in taxes, and also home repairs. Even your average house is a money pit.