You’ll End Up in Jail, Broke or Homeless My music teacher said that to me when I was a kid. She wasn’t the only one. Several teachers said versions of the same thing across those years. Different words, same message: there’s nothing much here, and you’ll prove it eventually. I’ve thought about that a lot over the years. I didn’t love school. I wasn’t struggling to keep up. I was bored. School seemed to reward memorising things and repeating them back, and I couldn’t see the p