Is college worth it? A return-on-investment analysis
For myself college was absolutely not worth it. What they taught me in comp sci classes was horribly outdated or not representative of the jobs available. I had fun in college and made some good friends but my professional life hasn&#x27;t been impacted positively in any way by going to college. I looked up my college and my department in their table and I&#x27;m making above what they estimate for 45 years old (I&#x27;m 30) and I beat the estimates for 25 by a healthy margin.<p>I dropped out my junior year after working for a full 40-hour week over spring break and realizing I was throwing away money to get a degree to.... get a job that I already had. Since then I&#x27;ve had absolutely no issues finding new jobs and moving up the pay scale. I&#x27;m not even sure if shorter (2 year) tech colleges are worth it if you want to go into software engineering, maybe some of the bootcamps are worth it but I&#x27;m not sure. I&#x27;ve learned more on the job that I ever learned in the classroom (as it relates to computer science) and if I had it to do again I think I would have paid a company to intern for a few months until my output exceeded any &quot;drain&quot; my lack of knowledge incurred. It would have been far cheaper, I wouldn&#x27;t still be paying off college loans, and I&#x27;d have an extra 3 years of full time earnings&#x2F;raises&#x2F;bonuses&#x2F;etc.