For me and for most people I know, college was/is a lot better than high school. I mean, I still didn't like going to class and all that, but college was the best time in my life. I was in a great dorm with friends I loved, I was involved in several Christian groups, Bible studies and other groups that I had so much fun with. There are opportunities to go on conferences in different parts of the country and chances to go overseas to study for a semester in a country you've never been to before.
I remember late night movies with a bunch of friends all crammed into a tiny dorm room. Even all nighters in a computer lab finishing up a paper that you waited to the last minute to write and then looking around realizing most of the other people there were doing the exact same thing. And study groups that end up being you and your friends complaining about how lousy the professor is.
Those kind of memories you don't make flipping burgers or even stitching up a patient during surgery.
Of course, if you just can't bring yourself to do it, there are other options depending on what you want to do. Have you looked at vocational-technical schools? I know, they are still schools - but it's a whole different format of learning. It's very hands on and very little lecture or textbook reading. I did a two-year program in graphic design but there's also nursing programs, carpentry, drafting, culinary arts, computer technology, etc. You learn your major by hands-on activities rather than learning about it from a book.
There are also several careers that don't require education higher than a high school diploma you just have to know what career you want and what is required for it. Or, you can work where you want now and if you decide to go to college later in life, do that. There are many people who start working and go back to school later in their life when they are ready to go back.
But, unfortunately, one huge drawback to being an adult is we suddenly are flooded with things we HAVE to do. We have to work to make money, we have to use that money to pay bills, we have to take care of our own place, we have to make our own meals (or buy our own from a restaurant), do our own laundry, do our own grocery shopping, etc. There's no getting away from that. So if you think that it's going to be less pressure to not go to college, I would advise you that the opposite may be true. I felt a lot less responsibility in college than out of it.
