I had an internship at HP when I was 16. I probably wasn't particularly useful, but I learned a lot about how the corporate world works. I'm glad I didn't have to wait until I was 18 to figure that out, and get on the right course for my education and career.
One of my high-school friends went to college for a teaching credential, only to learn at the end that he didn't like teaching.
College or not, it's extremely useful to be exposed to a field of work for at least a few months, before dedicating years if your life to it.
In defense of foobarian AFAIK driver code is famously the lowest quality code of just about any domain, even worse than academic code. The software is written by cost cutting hardware companies.
Everyone who has had to work with printers in a enterprise/production environment knows this... I'm amazed it's an industry that hasn't been disrupted. cough
As someone who has had to support printers.....its a spectrum of pain from "god why do they do this" to "I'm pulling hair out, because no sane person would want to use this product willingly"
One of my high-school friends went to college for a teaching credential, only to learn at the end that he didn't like teaching.
College or not, it's extremely useful to be exposed to a field of work for at least a few months, before dedicating years if your life to it.