[toomuchtodo]

I dropped out of high school in 2000. I'm 31 now. I built a hosting company from scratch (hosted Gatorade, almost all of Pepsico, Arthur Anderson), sold it, was a Director at a consulting company at 23-24, worked on data taking for the CMS detector at the large hadron collider, and now am a VP of IT Operations.

I'm not sad at all I missed out on everything a CompSci student learns. If I want to learn it, a problem presents itself, and I learn it.

If you want to learn the things you mentioned, learn them! Our industry allows us immense time leverage. Work 10-20 hours a week at a high dollar amount, and spend the rest of your time learning that which you're not going to learn on the job.