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Cake day: May 17th, 2025

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  • Just because you can apply doesn’t mean you’ll actually get a half-decent job, especially if you need to stay local to take advantage of your parents’ free room and board.

    If you can show that you took a deliberate action to get your GED because you felt that 2 years of work experience, getting yourself a financial safety net and understood that they are the same, you prove to be more valuable than the person who decided to stay in school has little to no work experience and is worse off.

    Companies like candidates who show they’re smart, also if it became the norm then no problem either way.

    Are you saying that a 16yo will be able to defend their legal rights against their parents? They might do it voluntarily if they agree with your view and are nice (“they are nice” might be the more important part here), but if they don’t, you either have to go along with them or you’ll significantly damage your relationship with your parents, which is kind of a bad idea even just from an economic perspective.

    I get that the parents can make it hard and it can strain the relationship but any good parent would support the move.