Education is always going to be important as we get older, but a lot of people don’t really consider that there is more than one way to learn.These celebrities either didn’t fit in with their high school crowd or had bigger dreams in mind and left to pursue a life of the rich and famous, and it worked!
1. Lady Gaga graduated from high school and attended a musical theater training conservatory.
When she was 19, she decided to drop out because she really wanted to focus on her music. That was clearly the best decision for her, wouldn’t you agree?
2. Brad Pitt was majoring in journalism before he dropped out just two weeks shy of graduating.
“It wasn’t leaving something behind, it was heading for something that was nascent and ill-defined. I did not know what it would be when I got to L.A., and to me not knowing that has always been the most exciting thing about making a trip,” he explained.
3. Christina Applegate had acted occasionally as a child, but it wasn’t until she landed the spot on Married… With Children that she dropped out of school.
She was just 16 at the time, but you’d be a fool to turn down an opportunity like that!
12. Steve Jobs dropped out of college and took a calligraphy course, instead.
He would return empty bottles for money and sleep on his friend’s dorm floors.”If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts,” he once said.
13. Even Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard after becoming the Chief Executive of Facebook.
I think it’s important to note that dropping out of college won’t automatically make you a billionaire; these men got really lucky and were really smart.
14. Seth Rogen had already started writing the draft for Superbad when he was just 13. He knew that comedy was his calling and dropped out of high school to focus on it.
Things worked out, and he began working for Judd Apatow, eventually becoming the main breadwinner in his family by the time he was 16.
15. Hilary Swank dropped out of high school because she felt like such an outsider and suffered from ADHD.
“I felt like I needed a lot of help, and I didn’t understand why the teachers couldn’t see it,” she explained.
16. Robert Downey Jr. lived in California until he dropped out of high school and moved to New York to pursue acting.
We all know that he has had his share of troubles in the past, but he has since done amazing things in his career. I couldn’t imagine a more perfect Iron Man!
18. At 15 years old, Quentin Tarantino dropped out of high school and began working at a movie theater.
He eventually took acting classes where, funnily enough, he would meet people that were featured in his later films. Aint it strange how life works like that?
20. Eminem repeated ninthgrade three times before dropping out when he was 17.
His upbringing definitely left him facing some pretty big challenges, but he persevered and focused on his music, which ultimately lead him to his rap career.
