When he was done high school he apparently attended various colleges and lived the homeless life according to Liberty Voice http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/paul-walker-was-homeless-in-college-sent-hate-mail-for-shelter-movie/ and would produced his friend Brandon Birtell's documentary about homelessness in Santa Barbara, California in his late thirties.
While in the California Community College and Santa Barbara City College, Paul majored in his next greatest passion, marine biology. During this time period it's said that Paul spent money faster than he could make it and ended up with extensive credit card debt. He has said in interviews that during this time he worked at UPS and thought that might be where he would work for quite some time before he could start his career in Marine Biology, he felt that he wasn't making enough money to be able to take his girl out on dates only getting paid minimum wage so he took to asking people for money in the parking lot of California's amusement park Magic Mountain. He would tell visitors that he and his girlfriend were down from Sacramento and couldn't get in because they were "short a few bucks". Paul says he ended up making so much money that he had to go back to his truck, which was parked outside of the parking lot, drive it back in and started asking people for more money. Eventually security caught on and he was banned from the park. It was due to his lack of funds though that made him decide to continue to pursue acting and his dreams of become a marine biologist was side tracked when he won the role of Skip Martin in Pleasantville. He originally took the role to continue to pay for his college education, but after his incredible good looks and on screen charisma was noticed, he was offered more roles and his acting career took off.
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