This guy has no academic/university education:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadao_AndoNeither has this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_UematsuI can make a long list of people. Just in Sweden there are loads as well.
I have definitely said no to the academic world because it doesn't suit me or my needs/personality. It's too politically correct, too much arrogance, ignorance, inefficient and unnecessary procedures etc... However, I'm not saying 100% no to maybe using my savings to become some sort of entrepreneur when I'm 35, or 40 or whenever. I'm not shutting the door to anything except for low paid McDonalds work that are on other's terms and University education.
I am the artistic and creative type. Like Ando or Uematsu, or Paul Smith, Raf Simons, Gianni Versace etc (all self educated without academic degrees). Maybe not as brilliant, but if I find a field I can use my special interests in I might try working there, as an autodidact just like above mentioned people who have achieved more than you or anyone on here will ever get close to. Paul Smith actually was a low class guy who started his fashion career by taking tailoring evening courses requiring no qualifications from school. I don't even think he finished school with real grades and he sure like hell didn't know anything about clothes before he started taking those courses, he just had a passion.
I think I might be a successful artist or designer at 45 while you're a bitter, unemployed, indebted cunt still whining over how "society isn't suited to your needs" and preaching your love for university degrees and begging the state to help you with your insane student loans which will never be repaid.