Heh... I dropped out of school to design bugs and bug detectors when I was 16. It bored the bejeezers out of me while I was in math class doodling around with differentials and integrals while that one loud incompetant (every class has one) would repeatedly ask the same inane questions over and over... "What's a limit? Can you explain logs again?" blah blah blah
I was better off, although one of these days I should do distance ed and finish off my grade 12, just so I know that I finished it.
I gotta admit that I do get a bit of a self-gratifying ego boost when I tell people I'm a high school dropout and they all tell me I'm full of shit... but it's a bit hard when I'm trying to tell my kids "No, you can't drop out and end up doing as well as I am... you're not me, and now's not then."