True that. And before I finished high school I spoke with people already working in the field I wanted to go into (software programming) and asked them what kind of training was really good and worth spending time and money on. Every advisor at every college I talked to told me their college was the best --- I realized they couldn't all be right.
So I realized that whatever training I got from whatever college or other source would ultimately be tested the day I started slinging out my resume asking people to hire me as a programmer. That led me to the realization that I should ask those people their opinion on training before I got the training so that I'd know that my training would be good (BS in computer science from a particular university in my state, though admittedly that kind of training might not be best in today's climate). I had that figured out before I finished 11th grade and don't consider myself a genius for doing so -- it simply makes sense. It's why I took my first software job before I walked the stage and made decent coin from day 1.
And working full time all through college left me with little college debt. Like Leaning Right, I appreciate my software work a lot more because it's a lot better than the grueling hot grocery warehouse work I did in college.
“True that. And before I finished high school I spoke with people already working in the field I wanted to go into (software programming) and asked them what kind of training was really good and worth spending time and money on. Every advisor at every college I talked to told me their college was the best -— I realized they couldn’t all be right.”
I went to a two year technical school for “Business Data Processing” (programming). The classes were taught by guys that were already in the field so you got the real stuff. Started out as an Assembler programmer for a bank. If I’d been a crook I’d be living on an island now. If I had to do it over I’d have taken engineering. :)