Skipping School

At the same time that you'r going on go and sees and trying to launch a modeling career, your friends back home may be finishing high school, attending college, or learning marketable skills on the job. Even if you're one of the lucky few who makes it a as a model, in five or ten years your career may be coming to an end. (The average career span of a model is eight years.) Your friends from home, meanwhile, may have graduated from college or acquired skills that will allow them to support themselves throughout their lives. In those same years, you may have been working full-time and making good money, but you've had to forego the education and job experience necessary for a career modeling.

Even though it may sound tempting to drop out of school to pursue modeling, you need to consider just how much you're giving up. The truth is, people with college degrees usually earn far more than those with just high-school diplomas, and that gap is growing all the time. If your career takes off, that's great, and you could make enough to be set for life. But if it doesn't, and you skipped college to give it a shot, you could end up with dim prospects for the future.