Did you graduate? If so, how is your life better? If not, how is your life worse?

So nearing the end of my grade ten year I’ve been finding myself wondering if high school is really worth it. I know having a diploma really ups your chances of getting a job, and you can’t attend any sort of university or collage without one. But the career I’m planning on going into is writing novels and freelance writing and as far as I know you don’t need a diploma for any of that. My thinking is, I may be better off spending my remaining 2 years of school concentrating on my writing and maybe trying to write as many articles for different magazines or whatever to hopefully establish a budding career.

I guess my question to you is if you graduated from high school, how better off were you? And if you didn’t, what were some of the things that were more difficult?