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by beachgeek 5276 days ago
There are tons of semi-technical job positions. Its very important though to get a good grounding in CS. My recommendation would be to either complete your degree if you're close to it or get a strong minor as someone else said.

My story: I did a BS in CS from a pretty strong tech school. My goal upon graduation was to hack the UNIX kernel. This was no easy feat in the early 90s, so I took a job as a sysadmin upon graduation. When I finally got a chance to kernel hack in 1995 I found I hated being in front of a monitor for 8-10 hours at a time. Even though I loved contributing to open source/Linux etc in my spare time. Eventually ended up in technical sales/PM. Still dive into code once in a while, but couldn't be happier with the way its turned out.

Although I still complain once in a while, just because :-)

Good luck with any path you decide to take.