Title: Hello HN people,<p>I&#x27;m feeling lost for a while and all the local people who I&#x27;ve tried getting in contact with, well, they all say the same thing over and over again. I want to drop college.<p>The big problem is that everyone is trying to make me feel bad about this, as if this would be the end of the world, as if there are only 2 choices in life: college or be a bum.<p>For me this feels wrong. I mean, I&#x27;ve started programming for fun at a really young age, and I&#x27;ve managed to get my first (full-time) job in the summer break after 10th grade and continued until I finished my high-school. Since then I&#x27;ve worked with a different company and in my spare time I&#x27;ve tried starting various projects of mine.<p>As I&#x27;ve said, I&#x27;ve started programming out of pure pleasure, and I consider that I&#x27;ve learned a lot like that, and now it feels like the only way to get by in life would be for me to merge back into some kind of slow-lane. I&#x27;ve tried going to college, and teachers either told me that I will be bored at their courses or that they will give me some extra course work (which the did only for the first time). The companies that I&#x27;ve worked for just treated me like some kind of valuable asset, and didn&#x27;t even have a &quot;career path&#x2F;planning&quot;. I&#x27;ve stayed in a company for 1 year and carried out quite a lot of the work and was underpaid compared to the local standard. And when I left, they just told me they expected that to happen at some point.<p>It&#x27;s really hard for me to believe that there is no place for people like me. All I&#x27;m trying to do is to keep learning at the same speed and with the same passion, bring my contribution to the world, but people just tell me that I&#x27;m too young, not experienced, etc.<p>Please HN people, tell me your opinion, help me understand what I should do!<p>*Sorry for my english, I may have slipped a couple of mistakes in.
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