I want to chime in on this.
I always, well not always, but since I was 15, wanted to start my own company. That was my dream. I would literarly go and read books on famous business owners as a hobby in high school. It was my dream.
SO, when I got a full paid ride to a state University guess what I did... I turned it down.
Got kicked out of the house becuase of it, got laughed at, my GF at the time dumped me, but I had a dream.
Long story short, by the time I was 21 I had started and ran a successful computer company that made over 1 million a year in revenue.
By the time I was 22 I sold it, at least my share of it (I had a business partner) and I am basiclly retired. I am 23 years old.
Am I a millionare? Yes. Am I loaded beyond my wildest dreams, no. I still have streams of revenue coming in, because I bought real estate and did some other smart things with my money. I actually make more money per year now then I did when I had my company. But I don't technically work.
What am I getting at? A person is as strong as his dream. To this day I always strive to learn something new. I love to learn. I learn by doing.
I have a best friend, who is pretty smart as well. We were both in all AP classes in HS, he actually had a tad bit higher GPA than I did. He took the full ride and right now he is working for a healthcare service, answering the phones, making 29 grand a year and he left college with a business admin degree and with a 3.5 GPA.
I would get in sales before I went to college. Another good friend of mine is 3 months younger than me and runs, literarly runs a Nissan store, becuase he got in the business when he was 18 right out of high school. Makes about 180k a year.
Anyway, I'm done