If I was 18 the first thing I would do is make $1K a month using blackhatworld stuff. Then use that to move to some country you've always wanted to live in (preferably a cheaper place like romania or chile where living cost is $400 a month). Then reinvest and reinvest while banging local dudes/chicks and learning language in your free time.
Rinse and repeat until you make $10k a month. At that point you would have enough money to go to University and be a dolphin and marine mammal veterinarian-- meeting some hot marine mammal biology guys/girls to hook up with.
Once I had my marine mammal vet degree I would get BACK into IM and shoot for $100 million plus.
Using a Tim Ferris Gure model I would explain I used IM to enable me to be a marine mammal dolphin vet and go viral
You can make a lot more than 1k per month even if you're 18Honestly this sounds the most appealing to me out of all the advice (well the beginning at least lol). I'm already at a point where I'm earning some money and I am able to afford life in one of those countries, I just need to take the first step.
I'd recommend taking 1-2 years off to "find yourself" lol, but you'll figure it out, I got a decade on you and I'm still figuring shit outI don't know for sure what I want to do. Definitely don't want to become a lawyer or a doctor or anything like that, you're right it's probably a waste of money for someone like me.
But at the same time, I feel like I shouldn't do nothing at this age. Most people go to university, but It'd probably be dumb to go just because everyone else is going