Can I get some help with school

[Bard A Madsen]

I use to have the same problem, about the best thing I can tell you is you HAVE TO DO ALL the little stuff.  No matter how smart you are or how much you know no one will pay you much unless you have that piece of paper that says you did ALL THE LITTLE STUFF.  Just do it.  

I thought school was a joke and didn't want to go past high school, I figured I would work in one of the six family's businesses and there were 75 vehicles, 4 houses, and 35 aircraft.  I could ace tests, read Hustler between the pages of my text book in class, and had to pay off teachers to get (A's+F's=D-'s) a C-.  Right after I turned 18 my whole family basically were killed and the attorneys and thugs took everything and I was homeless, broke and had to start from zero!  I had to do major hard time labor for decades and it wasn't easy and constant frustration just trying to get somewhere.  The only brooks and advice were from the cops and judges handing me the joker card and rolling the stone over me on the Sisyphus hill.  I recall having to go search for coke bottles after work to cash in for a pack of cigarettes just so I could momentarily take my mind off of how hungry I was.  I recall never getting a full nights sleep cause there was always a cop beating on the car window in the middle of the night and make me move to another spot.