If you think school is boring and you get no benefit out of it, then I would suggest taking time off of school at the moment (if you're out of high school that is). You can try doing a job that you really like, such as working at a reptile place if you like being with reptiles. I think it's better to have a job that you really like that doesn't pay as much as a job that you dislike that pays you well. But, that's just me. Though, in that reptile job you'll start at the bottom (cleaning cages, caring after small lizards and amphibians possibly) then as you do well you rise and are able to care after larger reptiles likes 6+ foot snakes and large lizards.

At my volunteer job I started out sorting greens and taking out anything the reptiles could not eat. Then, I had to feed those green eaters the greens I sorted out. After that I think I cared for baby tortoises. Now, I will sometimes care after the Beardies like feed them their protein and give them suppliements, but even better is now I like where I'm at. I fed Ball pythons one week and it was AWESOME. That's what I was wanting to do. I wanted to be able to interact with the pythons and snakes, and now I am. I started this job a few months ago, and now I'm at the point where I think it was well worth doing all the work in the beginning.

If you can, take off time from school. Start a job you like. Earn some money. And with money you saved up you can get in a better college where you can learn Zoology and Herpetology--the things you really do want to learn. Then when you are at the job you like you can meet new people that share the same interests that you do. Practically no one at my school is a huge fan of snakes like I am, so I have no one to talk to about my snakes. But on here I can start threads and post stuff about my snakes and meet people that share the same interest. I would also like to thank BP.net for getting me into breeding and morphs as well as helping me learn genetics--I knew the most about genetics in my entire science class just from learning about genetics on here.. You guys are great teachers!! Anyway, I hope you're seeing the point in my post.