Poor man...
In the north of Africa, one of the most important things you could do in your life is obtain a bachelor degree. Mostly, obtain a degree is the line that separates the well-positioned people from the scum. If you had the opportunity to study for a degree and didn't do you're like a piece of nothing.
Obtain a degree, and catch a mortgage. Either, you could finish being like one of this guys, one without studies couldn't do anything in his poor life.
Is my case. I left the high school when I was sixteen. Actually, I left with eighteen, but previously years were spent in other ways, mainly doing nothing* in the street. Aged 21, I was no-future person. No high school, no ways to live a life. Maybe I could serve cold spirits, maybe clean bars... maybe.
This is the way we live our life in the north of Africa. If you don't have a degree, you're nothing. Either, probably the only way you'll have to start up a little business live with the dark layer under your soul the rest of your life.
Because this is the way we live our life in the North of Africa. *In the north of Africa, spent time reading is waste your time (Note of the sociologist)