Personal Crossroads: Which road would you take? I'm in a pickle.

Alright, here's the deal. I'm in a situation right now between two paths of life.

Right now, I live at home with my mom and go to school full-time as an English major. I'm -only- choosing English as a major to hone my creative writing skill and eventually write decently composed memoir, screenplays, and possibly novels. While I love writing I'm also pursuing a career in acting and stand-up comedy.

I know that most people believe that work in the entertainment industry is a long shot, but it really depends on who you know, and I'm meeting lots of people that give me hookups to auditions, casting calls, and stuff like that. I've done extras work in three movies so far and I've made lots of contacts and I may have an agent.

My dilemma is:

With going to school full-time, I have no time to do anything to pursue what I really want to do for a living (comedy/acting).

My choices:

Suck it up, go to school and miss out on countless job opportunities.

OR

Live with my mom until she wants me to leave, move out and pay very minimal rent by living in a friends house and get a job on the side while I actively pursue comedy and acting.

The only issue with me is my fear of failure, fear is keeping me from taking chances and making choices that I think would be right. I don't want to waste more time when I'm bound to fail, but I don't want to waste my time if I'm bound to succeed. I'm trying to gain the courage and the drive to "just do it" and take a chance.

I'm only posting to possibly gain some untapped insight from the wise OT.

Your thoughts?

I would go to College. Once you've completed College at least you have some options, and you can see if you still want to pursue Comedy etc..

Trapped inside a pickle?!?!?

I'll get you out!

if you don't follow your dreams, you will lose everything and only be left with your dreams. i just made that up though. so you're a comedian, eh? say something funny.

so you're a comedian, eh? say something funny.

needled24-7

I know it's not the answer you want to hear but got to college.

You can still get involved in the dramatics and such at the school. Think of the Monty Python crew, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson and even modern UK comedians today - they all met at the Cambridge Footlights amateur dramatics club at Cambridge University.

And most of the successful actors went to some sort of Drama school anyway.

Edit: Also you will then have a degree which'll help you get a job once you realise later on in life that doing a job that gets you by definitely is better than living in the street. Once your young ideals have been dashed and all.