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Continue pursuing the degree part time until you are at a point where you can go full time. Especially look for courses that compliment what you are learning in the work place. There will be a point where you realize that continuing school part time will take another 5 years but if you enroll full time, you can graduate that year.

If you go to college, then run up the stairs as Paul Graham writes. If you take the hard courses, i.e. the ones that make you work and think, then you are better off regardless. If you enroll in classes to get grades then you are wasting your time.

College should prepare you for thinking critically and finding answers on your own once you are out in the 'real' world. The biggest issue is that you won't learn business skills that are useful, i.e. ones that help you work for yourself rather than an employer.



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