Should i go to college

[Bluemoon06]

I actually liked the non-CS courses more than the CS courses.

This is the key because it is not about being trained it is about being educated.  An educated person knows something about everything a trained person knows everything about something.  It makes life a lot more fun.

I am what everybody here hates.  My dad was a Doctor.  He worked for a large hospital company as a corporate Vice President made a lot of money working for that corporation and also had a lot of real estate.  I went to college with a nice car and apartment money for the girls fraternity etc.  I  got out of college and started to work in corporate America and now run the auditing group of a multinational corporation.  My dad, did understand that I needed to understand how to deal with people of all classes.  When I was growing up, I always had a job.  I had to cut the grass at my dad's apartments every weekend and was a crew member for his makeready crews.  I knew I would never need money, but I also knew how to do the work that people do when they must do that work or starve.  That kind of upbringing taught me that when contractors and handymen come to do a job for me it is not that I can't do the job, it is that I don't want to do the job.  I also understand how hard it is to do and where they would tend to cut a corner or two.

I now have my 14 year old son going with me when I do my real estate so that he can see how different people deal with life.  He gets to deal with crawling under houses to check pipes with the spiders and he gets to see how there is money in a project or not.  He gets to do the yards of any properties that are not yet rented just like I did when I was young.  That is a big part of getting an education it is not all in college.

[fadi]

IT guy here too

I worked in the IT industry for a while and was making 6 figures income when I decided to go back and finish it. It cost me $30k cash to finish it. I did not go back to increase my income, but to get the degree itself.

Some will understand it, others will think $30k is too much to spend on it when I did not need it career wise

[NoMoneyDown]

i'm sensing a trend here ;]

...the funny part is, that i see these software packages and web sites offered at reia meetings...and im like, "i can make a better product than that".  i love how my technical experience gives me an edge over some people and really allows me to customize (still in the development stage) my business.

i'm currently working on automation, a web page which allows access and easy maintenance of my preforeclosure records, contacts, clients etc... as well as designing some new busines cards. -a man of multi talents i tell yah!

... it doesn't end there.  i have big ideas.  once i have a fully customized system which requires little manual intervention, i'll look into making it easily portable so that other can customize to their own use.  hell i should even dig up the vb application i was developing for analyzing cash flow properties.

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i'd be open to sharing ideas and brainstorming about developing applications which can benefit our rei business.  perhaps we should take the dicussion offline sometime ;]

ryan

PM me.  I have a lot of good ideas I've been working on, too.  Perhaps we can collaborate/partner on some of them.