That's quite interesting, did you ever end up attending college at all? What are you doing now, and what did your parents do?
My parents, step-mom, and godparents (all MIT grads) have each held a number of eclectic jobs, from comptational biologist, to technical writer, to human/machine interface in college admission offices, to webmaster, to landscaper, to politician, to managing large philanthropic organizations.
What strikes me, is that in each of those jobs all of them have excelled, and MIT played no small part in the matter.