I wish I had that, I tend to do that however little it happens. My younger brothers (who are still in school, while I'm not) get almost showered with money and EC (which cost money), and if I were given the sum of money they have had I could easily have profited so much by now. They see that I have a ton of stuff, but that is because I take the money I'm given and turn the money around into sometimes double what I started out with. Honestly, everything in my room I have purchased with my own profits.

I had this happen on the TAKS test (for those who haven't heard of it, it's what Texas schools base their entire curriculum around) and I flunked the Writing exam because I had twisted the topic to such a crazy degree they didn't think it counted. And by crazy degree I mean I wrote about something highly fictional that still was within the boundaries of "something that made you sad".

As an unschooler I feel hundreds of times more motivated than before when I was in public education. I can honestly say I feel that I have learned tons of times more within the past year compared to the 10 years when I wasn't doing my own thing. Right now I'm "studying" Android and iPhone development as well as business tactics. It makes me laugh when kids are texting me during school saying how boring physics is for them. It was fun for me when I learned it via MIT's OpenCourse Ware 6 months ago.