The weight of your college experience degrades rapidly after your first job. What did I do? I went to a shitty city college, self-educated myself in coding, an

The weight of your college experience degrades rapidly after your first job. What did I do? I went to a shitty city college, self-educated myself in coding, and then I got hired by the smallest bootstrapped startup I could find, so thrifty and broke that they only bought used equipment for everything. My asking salary was so low that even they had mercy, upping it by 1K a year. Yes, I was underpaid, but guess what - that is the price of actual education. Don't go into debt - get AN education, and low-ball yourself on the first job. That's where you learn and make connections, that is where you want to pay the "fee".