I see Reddit thinking it is good enough to simply be employed, or to be working. That just ain't enough for me.

I do not have a degree. I am in sales and have been straight out of high school. I started in car sales, and now sell software. Car sales taught me to negotiate like a shark, how to hook people and ask for the close. I moved to real estate and finance and later technology, I find that people never see me coming, and I always have the upper hand on them to get the deal done. I have always made great money, especially considering my lack of degrees and certifications.

Some people think they can't progress in life without a degree, which I disagree with. I think you should work with what you have an always move forward.

With that said, if I could do it all over again, even if I don't care about the degree itself, the experience of higher education, of going to school, and investing time and energy into myself is something I look back on and regret a bit. You don't know what you don't know. School is there to help fill in the gaps a bit and give you a bump up from others when you do actually get started. I've learned so much from so many smart, awesome people through my career, the outside influence on me has been huge. I think you will get that in multiples in a formal setting. At 21, you still have lots of time ahead of you to lay the ground work and do things right.

Unless this full time work you are considering is the kind of thing that will lead to more, and fulfill you intellectually and spiritually, while leading you to a quality work life balance, I would go to school.

One last thought, most of the people I admire most, and look up to personally and professionally, have all had degrees, often multiples.