Part of being a lawyer involves reading comprehension. The post after mine said "Im going to partially disagree", not "shut up". One is absolute, the other is not.

This is the internet, people don't (well, shouldn't) take things personally. We're calling things as is which you're taking offense to.

You're not taking any risks in life which is why you're stuck where you are. No, taking one high school course at a time doesn't help. Everyone has concerns, everyone is scared. The difference is that you're rationalizing everything away by coming up with "ifs" and "buts" that in the long run, don't matter.

For example, say you do your GED, go to college, then go to university. You don't get into law school and spent say, $30k on a degree. You're really going to look back on that and think to yourself "Gee darn, I wish I'd stuck out in those high school courses so I could figure out I didn't like school and continue my night job?"

PS: Your friend who went to culinary school and paid $20k? Obviously didn't do research on the industry. Sucks to be them.

What made you took it down a notch and post something without using criticism?

Anyways, a lot of my friends tell me the same thing you just told me, so I'm not going to disagree. There are reasons why I don't want to jump the gun and take my GED, some I've already mentioned before. But you're right, no risk, no gain.