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by mswen 4701 days ago
Take the money and practical experience. Give yourself solidly to whichever job offer you except, but don't work 70+ hours a week. Work a highly productive 50 to 55 and take the difference to learn new skills. Always have a side project that is helping you master a new domain within CS and related fields.

Spend less money than you make! Save and invest. Put some into a retirement account but also build up a healthy fund for going to college. Set a start date for college. Fall of 2016.

With your experience and proven skills working PT freelance/consulting while going to college should be easy. Work your way through college freelancing about 10-15 hours a week during the regular term. Travel internationally during the summer while still working some remote projects.

Consider a double major combining CS with statistics or computational linguistics or something in the liberal arts.

Also if you find that you really love university, then just keep going and get a Masters.