Aloha? So, Hawaii? :)
Don't think most teenagers really try to find themselves in life at 16. Good that you do. I can tell from my own experience that I used to consider school also very important, so important that I have a masters degree now... and I have nothing to do with it. It might help me somewhere, just to show that I'm very f***ing educated, but that's about it. Education isn't such a barrier many are let to believe. If you know what you want in life just go and take it, regardless of education or skill.
Welcome.