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    It may simply require you to wait until you have your own home. This will seem to be a long time into the future and an extreme answer to your problem but it is one that would be acceptable to your father.

    I don't recall your age but I seem to recall you are too young to drive. So go do acceptable(by your father) activities, shovel snow for neighbors, mow lawns. Save your money, finish high school, think what type of post high school education you might want. There are many education options and I highly recommend you avoid any loans to pay for college. Also the military is a real education. It may take years longer to go to college(if you choose college) if you pay as you go, if you get a loan it can take 20 and more years to pay the education loans back.

    Why am I talking about something entirely different than your current problem? Well you are a bright, industrious young man who takes time to do some study outside of school Compared to me you lack maturity, but I am a 62 year old, who has owned a couple businesses, served 20 years in the U. S. Marines, had a kidney transplant, married twice(current marriage 32 years, two kids, 4 step kids.

    You will gain the maturity, I expect far sooner than you others your age.

    You need to follow the rules at your home, no one else needs to understand or agree with your ideas and desires. You just need to work toward your goals.

    Random advise on how you might make money in acceptable ways(again in your father's eyes). State a goal to him. "I want to save up enough money to buy a safe, inexpensive car within the next two years. Can you help me find a way to do this?" (example of how you might speak to him)



    "I want to save up to pay for a year of college. Can you suggest what I can do to start making money working now?"

    Best of luck, Mike
    "Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}

    Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked

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