I exited out of IT programming degree for the military. A big reason was I did math on what my future loans would mean to me to get a bachelor instead of just

I exited out of IT programming degree for the military. A big reason was I did math on what my future loans would mean to me to get a bachelor instead of just my associates. Sweating through the nuke program for 3-4 more years (extra compared to college), having no debt at the end, and a program that if you complete it is more valuable than a lot of degrees. It also seemed that there were two types of programmers. The Office Space guy, that is a cost to their company. And the Cult Of IT guy, that pretends to only think about IT. I wouldn't have the patience for the first, and after learning enough Lisp to make simple macros (and rip apart some of Paul Graham's mediumish ones) I realized that I just saw a system that does what it's told (and probably wouldn't be able to keep a straight face when Cult Of IT people worshipped beauty).