[valarauca1]

Go to college, get your degree. Its shitty advice but you kinda have to do it.

As painful and stupid as it'll be you'll thank me. If you don't have a degree it'll be 1000x harder to get an employer to notice you. You'll either have to invest about 3-4 years of your life on a large software project that may work (and get you noticed), or a big rare certification with some company like IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, etc. that will take years of studying and several lower level certifications (and several thousand dollars to take the tests).

Otherwise your job prospects are meh.

In college just do what they tell you. You will learn things, but not as fast as from other sources. Some courses like OS theory, compiler theory, and data structures will introduce you to newer concepts, some you may have not know.

Don't stop coding, don't stop learning. But a degree is important in today's world.