I'm scared for my future.?

You have to think about yourself here everyone measure "success" on gettinga degree with that good paying job with the family and the picket fence but your husband can be having an affair or your kids curse at you and call you by your first name,doing shrooms in your beach house in miami , will you hug your degree ?

No you become an alcoholic(Exagerrated scenerio i'm kidding but not really)

but if you were an artist you could express yourself with your music

That aside

If you really love music and that's your passion as long as you work hard you will excel. !!!!! Just have patience and a plan and work hard it wont come easy, we all can't be miley or other people with the foot in the door or connections.

As far as financial stability I would Say find something entry level you enjoy i got a job at 18 as a phone interviewer and moved up in the company to social media management where i just respond to tweets all day but my passion is screen writing. And I work on that on the side

School is a lot of money, it's dangerous to go in there with no plan especially if you are struggling in HS.

you can always go back if you decide maybe you want to be idk a dentist when you hit 27 it happens.

Good luck persue your dreams life is short find a mentor that supports you!!

Nothing to be scared of.. Just focus on the present.

Have you ever thought about attending a music conservatory? Or perhaps a university or college that offers music as a major? They exist, you know. In large numbers, both here in the States and across the globe. And playing guitar doesn't limit you, because there's such a thing as CLASSICAL guitar. Having a solid foundation in music theory, composition, appreciation, history, etc, etc, will give you the edge you need to get work as a classical musician. And talented classical musicians earn a very good living, or at least most of them do. Or you could become a music educator, and teach music at the primary, secondary, or collegiate levels. That would let you pass on your talents to future generations of musicians. If you take courses in music composition, you could also write music.

I would talk with your guidance counselor at school, and let him or her know that your main interest is music. He or she can help you find programs and an educational track which will help you prepare for higher education.

If you want to be in a band, you should be doing that now. Most people who want to be musicians form their first band in high school or earlier, so if you aren't already in a band, either form one, or join one. You need that experience. You also want to start researching what's needed in order to make it in your type of music - what do other musicians, who have become successful (both famous and those who are not famous but working), do in order to get where they are? Learn about the actual business of music, so you know what you have to do.

I have no problem with you wanting to be a musician, but you need to think about how you'll support yourself while you're working on your music. You can either do things within music to support yourself (be a K-12 music teacher, or teach your instrument at local music schools, or etc.), or outside of music (either a "career" type job, if there's something you like, or else a more "casual" type job like working in a restaurant.) So think about what you'd like to do to support yourself - what some day jobs you might like could be - and start researching what you need to do in order to get a job in those fields.

And then try to make it in music. If you need to go to college in order to get the day job you really want, then go. If you don't, then do not. But absolutely try to make it in music. And perhaps you will. Or perhaps you will not. But at least you'll have tried.

After you've been trying to make it in music for some time, start thinking about what your next steps will be. If things look promising with your music, then great - keep going. If they do not, then start looking at what you'll do next (perhaps your day job becomes your "real" job, or perhaps you change fields and go to college at that point or trade school, or...) But for right now, make realistic plans, based on real research, on what you need to do in order to make it in music AND have a good enough day job to support your butt as you try to do so.

If you do all this wisely, with your eyes wide open, you will be making solid, deliberate decisions based on actual facts, not feelings. This lessens your risk, so you don't have to be so scared for your future. Instead, you have a realistic plan - for example, to join a band and try to make it in music, supporting yourself via the work you do behind the counter at your local music store while you also teach guitar, with a plan that, if you haven't gotten to X point in your career by the time you are, say... 30, you'll go back to school to become an occupational therapy assistant... But some sort of real plan, which you can adjust as needed, but which you can also have there to help guide you.

Having a plan like this also helps you sound mature when you talk to your parents about all this, which can help them feel less nervous as well. They'll still be nervous, and they may not like your plan, but at least you won't be going to them with an, "Er... I don't know, maybe I'll join a band or something..." because that's not the deal at all. You'll have a real plan, and that will help.

Take some Community College courses on music. Tell your parents your passion is music, im sure they will understand. But to get in a band and make it big is hard. Its best to have backup plan.

Are you currently in your schools band?