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Unless required by law in your profession: Don't go to college.

• freedomben 7y ago
  I don't know if this is serious or not, but really these days learning to code and engineer software without college is extremely doable, and you can be ready to work in under a year (faster with boot camps and such, but the cost there may not be worth it). I know many, many highly successful developers that didn't go to school at all. They taught themselves to code and built something cool, then started working. By the time most people leave school with a mountain of debt, they are making 20 to 30k more than entry-level engineer would make. You really don't need college anymore.
• ThrowawayR2 7y ago
  > Unless required by law in your profession: Don't go to college. Good advice if you don't actually like your profession and don't mind spending your career at the middle to bottom rungs of your profession. That's not necessarily a slam, the average is where most people are. If you want a career doing fun and interesting things, even going to college isn't by itself enough; you have to master the things you learn there so that they're second nature. But, trust me, it's worth it both professionally and financially.
• romwell 7y ago
  Yeah right, because colleges exist only as trade schools and don't give people who go there any other benefits. And they are useless even as trade schools, no mater how complex the trade might be. That is why all the science and engineering * conferences are teeming with people whose education ended at high school. * as in "making actual things" engineering
• non-entity 7y ago
  This ended up doing more damage to my career than it did good.