[JacobIrwin]

I went the business route. Being an entrepreneur is innate. I used to sell the shanked golf balls back to the golfers by my house through a wire fence when I was 6. I would clean the balls first and then I would display the balls on a piece of old carpet (which I found in my garage) out of my Radio Flyer wagon. When I got home I'd have $20-$30, not bad for a kid who is 6, which my mother would "hold" for me.

Back to the point that being an entrepreneur is innate. Now I am 23 and a major in business admin and finance. I find that the big "niche" ideas I come up with (that I can personally produce) have been taken or are reserved by patents. The ideas that haven't been taken require programming skills, which I lack. I must rely on building friendships/partnerships with CS students, hoping that they are willing to take the time to help produce my startups. This route is not so terrible, but also not as convenient.

If I had to go back a few years, I would have chosen the CS route. The entrepreneur in you and I isn't going to wear off (no matter how much of a hacker we become).

Developing programming skills now will allow you to personally create valuable startups in the future by the time you are my age. I recommend this path especially since your talents have already surfaced in the online marketplace.

Good luck.

[brentiscooper]

Thanks very much for posting. I'd find it very irritating to have to rely on other CS students to give me any hope of getting to where I want to be, where as if I could program, I could build my ideas as they came, rather than having to wait 6 months before I built a relationship with a business major.

Programming seems the way to go :)