Anyone feel like college is a waste? Options

[Coomer]

Does anyone here feel like college is a waste of money, time, and effort?

To me, it's seemed like that since before I started. I've now almost got my AA, and I've learned some stuff, but not much that I really care about, and almost nothing that has helped me.

And if I go forward with my plans to go to Central Washington University and get my BA in computer science, I'm sure I'll learn a ton about computer programming and databases and stuff like that. But the problem I see is that I don't want to be a computer programmer or a database engineer.

I want to develop websites, and have my own business doing it.

I've got the knowledge to develop sites now, and what I don't know very well(OOP, ActionScript, etc.) I can learn on my own. I've always been able to learn on my own with the internet or a book, and I actually prefer it to learning in a classroom.

And as far as the business side of things, I'm confident that I can handle that too. I've invested a few hundred dollars over the last couple weeks buying books and such about the subject of web development businesses and business in general. And again, what I don't know, I don't need a class for. I can learn fine from reading.

So yeah, college seems pointless to me. Anyone else feel the same way?

[Rjb23]

English is definatly not a waiste. In order to design a system you have to be able to write clear enough instructions for someone else to follow. Honestly there is not much money in programming, but there is a lot of money in analysist positions. Every system that you design if it is large enough you must provide documentation for. A simple search engine that we wrote for Colgate Palmolive that they are in the middle of implementing now, we had to write a document that was about 150 pages long, with diagrams, installation instructions, and basically how the system would work and be coded before we even coded the project. If you can't write in a clear and precise way your document will be useless to anyone else, basiscally the idea behind it is that if I gave the document to a programmer they could go through and code the thing according to the document.

I can understand if you are just writing a simple web page for a company but when you get into larger projects you will need this stuff. I thought all my business classes were a waiste until I got into analyzing businesses and making recomendations on what they should do to increase profits, now I wish I would have paid more attention.