| True story of what I did.... Went to college for 2 years while doing projects on the side (web apps in 98). Dropped out because I got two offers on monster.com working for internet companies and noticed that what they were offering ($52K) was more than the starting salary for my CS degree (they hired me for my experience). After two years at that co I moved on, rolled over the 401K from there, about 10K and bought AAPL at 29 and AMZM at 40, then GOOG at 200 (if any of my kids want to go to college its paid for already, they are 10 and 9). Moved on to work for a university (I still have no degree) and am there now making a good salary supporting my family and have lots of time off and get to work on new tech at job whenever I want with the projects I get (I keep my customers happy). During the last two years I made 4 games for WP7 in the evenings, was first to market with them (free) and made a killing. http://CheeseZombieGames.com My advice....FUCK THE CS DEGREE! Unless....you really really want to learn all that math and theory and other specialties (AI, OS's, Networking etc etc etc) because you are a geek at heart and constant learning is one of your passions (it is for me). But you CANT do both, you will be horrible at both if you try. Pick one route, go with it, stick with it and do the best you can with it. Either will pay off immensely in the end, just be prolific (github sure, mobile, web etc anything). Which will you choose? |