Like I said in my other response to you, it depends on the person. The best thing I ever did after dropping out of college was moving back in with my parents, working 50 hours a week and paying rent to them and buying my own food, gas and insurance. The things they said then I listened! They made sense. Our conversations were about business & career development and not soccer games. At 18 I thought I was too smart. I hadn’t listened 3 years earlier. I actually learned a lot of important aspects of life and the work force at 21 living with my folks. Now at the age of 26, having lived on my own for 5 years, I oversee nearly 1300 people without a college degree. If I hadn’t moved in with my folks for 6 months I don’t think I’d be in my current position.
I think it was Mark Twain who said something like “When I was 18, my father was so stupid I could hardly stand to keep the old guy around, but as I got older he really started to smarten up..” lol