Why I will never go back to school

He rejects returning to school, preferring self-directed online learning, sufficient income, personal freedom, and work he genuinely enjoys. A computer-science course begun five years earlier ended after four weeks because he disliked classroom control, group tasks, and the subject. He credits self-teaching for Japanese, Korean, iPhone game-making, translation, and drawing, while leaving the petrol station days before Subway opens.

Self-directed autonomy remains his central priority, extending from learning choices to leaving the petrol-station job.