Ugh thank you.

I have been programming since I was 9 years old. I went to college for 3 years, but ended up leaving my senior year to get a job because I was out of money and didn't want to take out loans. When I got hired at my current position, they asked me if I would "make the job a priority" over college and I said that I would.

My official title is "Data Analyst", but what I actually am is an underpaid developer.

I work with one other guy and we write VBA utilities to handle data migration. I had very little experience with VBA when I started working there, but picked it up when I realized that we basically live in Excel.

Anyway, the reason college annoys me is because 3 years of college programming courses and several high school AP programming classes and I had never even touched the language I currently work in.

Computer Science is just too broad - there is too much to learn and randomly learning a little bit of this and that is only helpful if you don't already know it.

If I had a dollar for every class I have sat in where we learned about "for loops" I could buy myself a large pizza or something - you know what I mean - there's just always new syntax to learn, but it's all pretty much the same shit.

My favorite language is C# and I have spent all the time I can learning it, but I have never been offered a C# class as part of my college education - really frustrating.

I spend a lot of my free time on stackoverflow learning things by helping others and I just hope that future employers will recognize how this is going to be more useful to them than me spending $4,000 more dollars to take a chemistry class (among other things).