I just got a B.S. in Management of Information Systems. I was looking to go into comp sci, and self taught myself lots of comp sci, but that major is too scientific and not directed well for the real world at most uni's. There's a massive difference between computer science and software development, the latter portion being rarely taught to the students. Maybe that's changed since the 5 years I've been out of school.

Anyway, don't rely on school to teach you everything you need to know. School can give you some foundation, but having the gall to learn more than what your professors' slideshows teach you is how you succeed. My uni program showed me Oracle's PL/SQL language with some RDBMS theory, VB.NET, Office, and some other BS. What a joke. I had already been through the Cisco CCNA program while still in high school, worked with RDBMSes for a while, did web dev, ran my own small IT biz creating and troubleshooting corporate networks, and was driving around a $50k car (my 2nd after my first $35k car) I bought and paid for by the time I transferred from CC to uni.

Learning never ends. I literally spend nights up till 5am these days reading about the latest VMWare solutions, Amazon AWS certification training, the latest web dev stuff, and just tons of other nerd stuff. Luckily, I'm not a big socialite, else I'd never be able to learn all this stuff.

Right now I'm trying to create a Sa-aS web business solution for a new business, but I've had trouble overcoming my perfection complex. That's another thing you may face in life. Nothing is ever perfect and there is never the perfect time to do something. Just do something. Anything. It's better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. You will fail. Many times. It's easy for me to say this, as I've been trying to convince myself, but I keep falling back. I'd like to take my career and life to the next level as a successful entrepreneur above being an IT consultant dude.