[gwbas1c]

> I started working for a tech company immediately out of high school.

> What should I do?

Go to college, full-time, while you are still young. As you get older, it will be increasingly difficult to have a tech career without a degree.

You are in a place in your life where you're still on the same wavelength as the typical college student. Also, now that you have career experience, college will be significantly easier than someone who went because it's "what you do after high school." If you go back to college when you're in your late 20s, or older, you may find that spending your days with people a decade younger is frustrating.

Hopefully you don't have a large car payment or mortgage, so it's easy to enter college without strings. Thankfully, you can probably sell anything you bought on credit for more than you owe.

Edit: One thing to add. There is clearly an education bubble and many people young people are spending far too much money on an education that will never pay for itself. You are not one of those people; you've clearly proven that you will benefit immensely from a degree; and that you will have no problem paying back any loans you take out. If you want to keep your costs reasonable, favor looking at good public schools, like UMass Amherst.

[tombert]

As someone who finished their bachelors in their 30's, I think you're completely right about this. Every day you put off college/grad school makes it a bit harder to get back into it.

In grad school now I feel like I'm playing a perpetual game of catchup; I have a mortgage and whatnot to pay, so I have to work full time, meaning I have to spend hours every night studying. If I had done school before I was too entrenched in anything, it would have been much easier. On the plus side, at least I don't have to worry about student loans, since I go to a public university and have a decent salary.