Know your financials, income and outflow. Use a credit card for everything but pay it off every month don't over spend.
Unless you have a full ride scholarship do your general education at a community college.
If you don't want to go to school join a trade union apprenticeship program. Talk to your local unions while you're still in highschool so you can be prepared for the process.
IMO electrician > plumber/pipefitter > HVAC > the rest. Carpenter might be above HVAC but I didn't really talk with any of them. I got hurt in my final year of my plumbing apprenticeship, I did graduate and become a journeyman plumber but left the field shortly after graduation to avoid back surgery. I'm a software engineer now.
Wait for kids.
Learn to cook.
Exercise.
Work hard.
Read.
No nicotine, cocaine, opioids or other fiercely addictive substances.
Everything else in moderation
Don't rush to have sex, but I'm def not advocating waiting till marriage.
Didn't settle in your relationships, just because you've been together a long time doesn't mean it needs to be forever. I didn't marry or give up my desire to not have kids with my 5.5 year relationship. Turns out I just didn't want kids with her. Imeet my wife 3 years later married her after a year and intentionally had a kid the following year(more than 9 months after our wedding thank you very much)
I grew up, and live in a tourist destination. My highschool was trash. Tourists are a nuisance. We have a few big events in town yearly that bring an insane amount of people here and most locals just hide in their house for a week at a time. I would leave but it has the only weather I like. I make really good money(well over 100k) in a non tourist job and can't afford to buy here.
The tea party was my wakeup call, before that I was a Republican because I was Christian, my dad was Republican and I didn't pay too much attention. The more attention I paid the further left I became. The tea party was so obviously dumb and racist it forced me to evaluate my political beliefs.
I started talking mine on the weekend too and I sleep a lot better now. Ignore that this comment was at 2:42 am I just had a new kid and fear the wrath of my post-partum wife for not helping enough at night.
What a bitch to cut up