[jmscharff2]

I am very scared about this new trend in, hey you like tech/programming and want to be an entrepreneur skip college join/start a company. While yes you can be very successful and you can learn a lot, if you fail or the company fails you are stuck with a resume where you have no degree, no formal education just a job where you may have learned a lot but a lot of the time that cannot get you in the door of the next company. I worry that people who went to these top schools MIT/Harvard/Yale etc are telling people to not go to school, if you take a very smart person and they drop out of a top school that is completely different than having a 19 year old kid not sure what to do with his life and he enjoys programming.

It just seems like a scary trend that is cropping up in tech, sure you can learn a lot if not more from a startup than your college education but the degree is what will get you in the door to a lot of places in your future.

That degree is the base for your career, its great to join/start a startup but if that fails you have nothing to fall back on, if you think you can get an interview with no degree to a top tier company and you dont have some kind of crazy resume then you are clearly living in a dream world. A single job where your company failed will not be the same as a degree.

(all assuming that you dont become a billionaire from this startup)