>I'm still not sure if that was the right decision. Part of me says I'm living in LA and I have a year of work on my resume, a bunch of knowledge from the tech

>I'm still not sure if that was the right decision. Part of me says I'm living in LA and I have a year of work on my resume, a bunch of knowledge from the tech CS program, a couple of mildly interesting personal projects on my GitHub, and I should be ok; I just need to put myself out there. Your GitHub projects are extremely valuable, some of the more interesting companies have scripts that automatically search for open source contributors to widely used projects on GitHub . I didn't even go to college and am paid at a competitive level for my experience with recruiters contacting me daily on LinkedIn, though I'm not a pure software developer (DevOps). Keep working on those GitHub projects, solve algorithm questions on LeetCode/Hackerrank/ any of the competitive programming sites, always be learning something new. The debt and stress with a college degree isn't worth it when no sane project owner on GH will reject a PR due to college credentials, thereby continuing to increase the value of your own resume in addition to your work experience.