I was after degree all the time - but now I realise I am an artist and I need to learn some skills.
Have I been smart enough to learn skills earlier in my life I would have been more successful
Many think that if they'll focus on some exact undertaking they'll succeed faster and better, but it's usually not so, especially for creative works. To paint something outstanding you need to have your own unique experience and your efforts in getting a degree is a part of it. There is a lot of education I rarely use in my life but all of it made me who I am and I use results of both education and experience if not everyday then very often. Maybe I could learn more purposefully but then it wouldn't be me, but someone else with a different life. And I prefer to stay me.
Money and education both are important but you can't deny this fact that money is more important now to achieve anything in life like good education or to start a new life or business nothing is possible without money .
Even for getting a good formal education and degree you should have money and resources.