Something similar happened to me. I graduated in '98 when there was a huge demand for Linux SysAdmin skills. I took the job. It worked out well for me; I w

Something similar happened to me. I graduated in '98 when there was a huge demand for Linux SysAdmin skills. I took the job. It worked out well for me; I was able to establish myself well enough to handle the downturn. The market right now for IOS devs is a lot like the market for linux sysadmins in 1998. I'd bet money that in five years, IOS devs will be earning less, normalized for skill, (either because IOS loses as a platform, or because more people retrain to become IOS devs and increase supply to meet the demand, one or the other will happen.) Unless you have a limited-time offer for paid-for college, taking the job (with the option to go back to school if you feel the need or if the market for your current skills tanks) will give you the most options, and likely the highest earnings. Nobody asks me if I went to college. There will be a cost you need to consider, though. If you choose not to go to college, you will always be weird. Either you don't go to college and you are the uneducated hick (of the people I interact with day to day, more of them have postgraduate degrees, I think, than have no degree at all.) or you go back to college and you are the old guy for the duration. (which, at least for the few community college classes I've taken for kicks, I found kinda amusing, personally.) So really, my advice: if you are career-focused, take the job. If you want a "normal" social life? go to college.