| This may be a red herring in this discussion, but I would strongly recommend that a young person do a regular BA undergraduate degree, if possible, and then consider how to get into the business. It seems to me that people's minds and experience are still very provincial after high school, and that college opens up a much wider world of knowledge and experience that will inform all parts of the young person's life and work, regardless of what it ends up being. It also provides one with a diploma that means something in the wider world. I've always had a hard time digesting specific technical knowledge without practical experience (and the adrenaline chaser of a real job) to make it stick. Brilliant people will mostly always succeed, but average folks I've met who have come from these for-profit technical programs seem to have trouble framing their knowledge in ways that help them solve real problems in real time, until they build up some experience.
Philip Perkins |