Go for your dreams kid and the sooner, the better!
I finished high school at 15 and ended up in an apprenticeship and by 21 was a partner in the firm, talk about a fast track lifestyle!
It seemed like a great career and the money poured in. But I didn't do what everyone thought I should do, I drove a paid-for car, refusing to trade and buckle under to payments every 2-3 years, I bought an old house and fixed it up to my liking. Then I spent my spare money traveling when I could. I had to do continuing education, so i booked that all over creation and when not doing that, I ran off sailing in the Caribbean or riding a motorcycle in Montreal or hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains on weekends and vacation time. I fought at work to change our vacation policy to more time off. I gave them 100% when I worked, i didn't do personal junk at work, I worked very hard and I wanted time off to enjoy a little life here and there.
Astoishingly, at 28, I felt burned out at work, even though the money and prestige was there. In America we are taught that money is everything and only money can measure success. Well, at 28, I secretly spent a year planning my escape! I sold everything I owned, including my part of the business and ran off to the Caribbean to work as professional crew on sailboats and yachts.
My first paycheck for a week, was less than I typically made before lunch on Monday and all I did was LAUGH! For about 10 years I ran around on boats, working as a deckhand, then a chef and later, briefly as a captain. I even bought my own old sailboat, some how-to books, refit her to new again and lived aboard on anchors, not marinas, at numerous islands. I simply had a BLAST!!!
Folks at home kept whining "When are you coming back? It's time you settled down again..."
I think they just wanted me to be miserable like them, and to this day, my siblings are pretty rude to me, telling me "You need an office and a house."
Well, fast forward 22 years later and a bad boating accident and a few hiccups in health and well, I just don't have the body and stamina to live my life at sea anymore. I CAME HOME to the USA and my old hometown for a visit.
The traffic was horrible, the place was overgrown in way-too-big housing development, much of the southern charm was just plain gone. I wasn't impressed and thought "Glad I left when I did if this is what it has come to!"
It seems everyone tried to force me to "get a job, get a lease, settle down..."
But I MISSED traveling! So I bought an old used Motorhome and moved in recently. I had to make some repairs, some I could do myself and some I hired out. I hadn't seen any snow in 20+ years and when it dumped snow on my southern town one night. I stayed up nearly all night, cuddled up in my RV bed, with the shades pulled up around my bed, and watched the snow come down all night! I thought it was awesome. I sure thanked my lucky stars for the heated mattress pad I had bought that was keeping me cozy in bed. The next few days, when I kept trying to describe how beautiful it was to watch those big fat snow flakes transform the landscape around me, in the dead of night, folks looked at me like I had lost it... but it was a magical night for me!
Now I am smitten and on the road!
I pick up freelance work, I wrote a book and get some royalties, I'm working on another book, I keep my life VERY simple. Like before, when I lived on my little sailboat. I am happy and getting stronger everyday (last summer I ended up in ICU for nearly a month, fighting for my life) but now I am LIVING and traveling.
I don't regret a thing about my life. I look forward to the nomadic lifestyle of RVing full time. My rig is a 1994 Class C and it came with my basic requirements and more than I could hope for. I stumbled into a great deal and I am very happy with it. As I loaded it up, I tossed out even more of my stuff, less is best and I don't need a ton of junk to be happy.
There are lots of traveling jobs, and they often pay a per-diem, whether you are in hotels or in your RV.
If you live simply, then it's easy to bank up money when you are working, for the cruising kitty. I may not have the sports car and mortgaged house, but I have freedom and best of all HAPPINESS.
If I were forced into a cubicle and a mortgage now, I would probably slit my throat before the week was up.
Live life, follow your dreams. Have some FUN! Do it while you are young and the body is energetic and healthy!
The "docking station" in mind would be my own land with electric and well/septic where I would "dock" when not traveling. 
