I am not familiar with TAFE...and it might depend on what field you are entering.

DSX, I wish I could tell you life gets more and more fair the older you get. In fact the opposite is true.

So what if you want to become a novelist/author? You gotta go to college for that too? It's basically being your own boss, so I don't see why you'd have to go other than just getting more knowledge in the writing field.

I've been through enough in life to have realized that VERY early. This fact I've known for years, because things only got harder on me.

But still my point stands. Society needs to make these changes or at least even things out so its fair for everyone.

Maybe something like you get more pay for a job if you've gone to college. People who didn't go can still get the job as long as they show their experience.

People don't hire novelists or authors. They sell what they write.

Famous people with special skills can get special visas. That's how foreign pro baseball players and soccer players can live there. If George Lucas said he wanted to buy a summer home in Japan, I am sure the government would make sure that could happen.

So if you were a famous author, you could apply for a special visa.

Just like graduating high school, graduating college proves you can do something. This will never change. It's like the person earlier today who had a 200 word vocabulary in Japanese, and wanted to be able to understand movies. It doesn't work like that. You have to put in the time, energy, and money, and then get the rewards. There is no lottery in life.

And that's what I want.

But the fact that I have to wait until I get a degree to go to Japan just angers me. Going there would crucial to most of my stories, because as I've said before, most of them take place in Japan.

That, and I'm writing now and would like to go. All the more to help me in learning the culture and language. The only words I know are konichiwa, arigato, and just names I have for my characters in the stories.

For life in the stories so far, I'm going off what I see in movies, read off wikipedia, and read on here as well as other things on the Japanese life.

But having to wait until after college? I'll probably be like twenty something, and I'm not a very patient person with things I really wanna do.

Which makes it bullsh**, flatout.

You can go at any time as a tourist for up to 90 days.

Why achieving a difficult accomplishment is BS is beyond me. All I do know is no one regrets graduating from college, but plenty of people regret not graduating.