Nobody hands out permission slips after high school. Sign your own.

School runs on permission: a form, a signature, an adult confirming you are cleared. Then it stops, and plenty of people keep waiting for the equivalent, some moment when a qualified person says they are allowed to begin. That moment never comes, and the ones who look like they received it simply decided to go.

Take the thing you have been waiting to be told you can do and try a small version this month. Register, email, sign up, start. Nobody is coming with the slip, and finding out you can authorize yourself changes more than the thing itself does.