What's the best thing for a young man of 16 or 17? There is no diploma.

The best way out is to go to school, no matter what is high school or technical school, school is best. Because the age of seventeen is the most prone to accidents in the age group, the usual behavior a little careless will affect a lifetime, how to make this age group of young people in the future time to step into society, need to have a good guide.

So going to school is the best way. Because there are teachers in the school to watch, the school control, even if you do not study, after all, in the school is still a good boy more, the school environment even in the technical school, but also than in the social environment is much better, so sixteen or seventeen years of age is still the best to go to school, even if you can't learn things, in the school does not learn, but also better than in the society blindly mixed, at least will not go astray. I just graduated from junior high school is also do not want to go to school, a lot of my friends did not go to school, play at home all day, I would like to play with them at home every day, but my mother had to let me go to school, but also to find me a far away from home, a large technical school, and let me read the junior college, learning CNC professional, on the five years. I didn't want to go to school at that time, but I later found out that going to school was the right thing to do, because a lot of my buddies who didn't go to school, some of them were like hooligans at home, wandering around the village every day, and some of them were even stealing chickens and dogs, and I think back now that if I hadn't gone to school at that time, it's very possible that I could have been the same as they are now.

If you can't afford to go to school, you should look at your personal hobbies and find a trade similar to your hobbies, and work hard to learn a trade so that you can support your family.

The above is just my own personal opinion, for reference only.