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by robotkilla 4119 days ago
He should still go to college or budget his time in such a way that he is able to study the things he would learn in college.

This is coming from someone who has been in the industry for 12 years. I was homeschooled my entire life (until attending and dropping out of a community college). I thought that meant I was using correspondence courses but recently discovered from my mother that she just purchased text books and used those to educate me (save for 1 year during "grade school" and all of high school which was correspondence).

As I said, I've been in the industry for 12 years and to this day I feel like I'm judged harsher in interviews.

Also I'm not bragging about the homeschooling. I'm pretty ashamed of it.

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FWIW I regularly got destroyed by the homeschooled kids in math competitions in high school. That said, they were a weird bunch.
I was raised in an ultra religious hosehold that didn't allow me to associate with people from the "World".

What do you mean by weird? This seems perfectly cromulent to me.

endsarcasm