To School or not to school

in Rich Karlgaard's article he discusses the declining value of a university education.

This topic hits particularly close to home because it was an internal debate that I had for some time before coming to Mcmaster. When I was in high school I took a year off to do some acting, work a full time job, and spend more time on my music. That year I made more money than the university educated principal at the school I had attended. In fact.. I made more money than my PhD holding mother who was working only part time.

I decided that though the money came easily... the work wasnt the best (the acting was great.. I mean the full time job) and I yearned for something more. So here I am at university. While I hope to be making a fair bit more money than I was the year I took off.... I often wonder how my life would have been if I had continued to work. One of the main reasons I came to university was to experience living as a university student, something which I had my fill of in a little less than a few months.