[ccrush]

I've been reading this site for a long time, and I signed up today just to tell you to go to college. I've been programming professionally for 10 years, since I was 19 years old; your age. I dropped out of college to work, and I've been making $100k+/yr for about 4 years now. I dropped out because I thought I didn't need the degree, but now I regret not finishing. If you don't think that CompSci is challenging, you can take another major and mix in your CompSci knowledge. Finance + programming is huge. Chemistry has a sub-field called computational chemistry which lands somewhere between theoretical chemistry and applied chemistry. If you want to work with super-computers you'll look there. There's physics and mechanical engineering where you can apply computer programming knowledge to do finite element analysis. Or learn computer vision or medical image processing (look into segmentation and registration). And I'm just scratching the surface. At your age the world is yours to conquer. Finish a degree in something about which you are passionate instead of going to make websites or crappy line-of-business applications for some company that wants to suck the soul out of you for what you think is riches but what amounts to pennies for them. The working world is not all it's cracked up to be. Trust me on this. Also, I'm Romanian too. Success, ma. Tine-te de carte ca vin banii.

[coolsebz]

Hah, multumesc! :D Thanks for signing back in, I'll be sure to check mechanical engineering for future studies, I've always wanted to look some more in that domain!