I've hired plenty of people but no developers, so take my comments re college with a grain of salt. I never, ever look at a person's degree. If someone left on

I've hired plenty of people but no developers, so take my comments re college with a grain of salt. I never, ever look at a person's degree. If someone left one off their resume I might ask out of curiosity, but I doubt I would think about it beyond that. I used to run a PR agency. In that kind of work, a person's 'presence' is the most important thing, so I would just talk to them until I got a feel for them. If I were to hire a developer, I would ask what projects they had finished and I would try to establish if 'they code even when they don't have to'. I really think you need to be addicted to something as complicated as programming if you're going to be effective. If I could do it all over again, I would take 1/5 of the money I (and my parents) spent on a largely worthless 'private school' education and start a business. Even if you fail, repeatedly, the lessons you learn would be invaluable. I actually encourage you to drop out of school. Not so that you can follow some completely unstructured path down a beery slope or anything, but so that you truly take your future into your own hands and spend all of your time becoming what you want to become. Good luck!