A few years ago I worked with a 14 year old on work experience. He had some impressive sounding personal projects on the go, and after a few months throughout t

A few years ago I worked with a 14 year old on work experience. He had some impressive sounding personal projects on the go, and after a few months throughout the years of working for us, we gave him a job at 16, which he accepted. He got pretty good in a certain niche, and over time he built up legitimate experience - good enough to land senior developer roles in this market, and to be well-known to other developers in these circles. The problem, for him, came when he decided that he wanted to try something new. Suddenly, his 7-8 years of real-world experience didn't matter for much, and he was struggling to get roles ahead of fresh graduates, because he didn't have a degree, but mostly because his experience was around this one language and one CMS. He'd hit a ceiling in this role, and couldn't really find a way out. He's earned some solid money, but since leaving his current role he's struggled to find any meaningful work outside of what he's good at - WordPress builds, and now that he wants to do something different he's struggled to find work. He's still young enough to not be classed as a mature student, so he's going back to college and then onto uni part-time while he does contract work. In your case it might make sense to take the job now instead of building up a ton of student debt to get that job in a few years time, but jobs don't last forever. This job might be amazing, but you might face redundancies, or find yourself isolated from your friends/peers, or find what my friend discovered - he doesn't really enjoy what he's doing.