Work From Home In - Highschool

So highschool was really my first foray into attempting to create a business from home. I won't say it was completely legal, but I also can't make the claim that it was illegal at the time. So let's get down to the basic underlying idea of what I wanted to do, and still want to do to this day.

THE PLAN:
Create a system that can make money and then be automated to continue making money without my interference. Then grow this system so that I have multiple machines all automating this system together.

Seems like a simple enough plan as a person that can script and program right? Well it wasn't. My original idea was to create a working stock trading bot. I really knew nothing of the market but I figured that if I learn the basics I can create a bot (An automated computer program) to skim off the top of price movements. The idea was to work at home in my pajamas on the weekends setting up these bots and then during the week they would rake in cash while I was in class I'd be making money. Sadly this never came to fruition because I; one, didn't take action; and two, didn't have the programming skills anywhere near capable of creating a bot that complex.

So my next step was to look for something a little simpler. I've always loved video games and I have some experience with scripting a bot for a game called diablo 2. This bot would play the game for me and get items while I was away from my computer. The beauty of this is that, at the time, selling of these items was rampant on ebay. People were making loads of money off running 50+ of these bots all at once and selling the items in huge ebay stores. Now ebay didn't like this so they had to add little clauses like "You are not paying for the item you are paying for the time used to gain the item." In the end it didn't work though. By the time I had a system ready to make me money with these items ebay had completely banned d2 item sales and the game had died so much there wasn't a large amount of money left in it.

What I knew now though is that I obviously had an affinity for programming and I loved video games. Why not just marry the two, create some video games, and become rich. So my next step was to define a plan that could allow me to succeed in becoming an extremely wealthy high end video game developer. As I did some more research though, I learned that game development wasn't really done by a single person anymore. If you wanted to get paid good money you had to get a college degree and work for the much larger development companies and work your way up the ladder. This didn't deter me. I knew if I worked at it I could create a very strong game development career and eventually start my own game studio. This way I could work from home and have an entire company automated for me. All I had to do was steer the ship.

The final step in my highschool career was finding a college that could help me best attain my goal of getting into the game industry. The search for colleges was on!