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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr. Kaze" data-source="post: 2261449" data-attributes="member: 8848">What worked for me is not necessarily the best of advice.I got a 4-year Communication (Public Relations) degree in 3 years, minor in Computer Science, decided that PR didn't pay enough to deal with people all the time, picked up a spouse and a contract at a big tech company as a web application developer right before the .com crash which I converted into a full-time in another department when the crash happened.Had I stayed in school for four years and developed more professional real-world contacts (which is the generic "correct" advice to give), I wouldn't have gotten my job.  Had I gone on for a master's degree or spent a bit of extra time to bump my minor up to a double major, I wouldn't have gotten my job.  And if I hadn't picked up a spouse a couple of years younger than me on the way out, I wouldn't be paying her way through a private art degree nor would I have such a compatible life-partner.The best general advice I know of is:  Spend as much time and as little money as possible doing stuff in school.  Get your degree in whatever the friendliest professors teach -- you're more likely to care about their classes and, reactively, they're more likely to care about you (and help you get good grades).  And when you get out of college, get financially liberated from educational institutions as quickly as possible -- charitable alumni donations are okay; lingering obligations are not.I only did one of these and I'm still doing pretty well by almost anybody's standards.::Kaze</blockquote>

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