Here’s a question to think hard about:

If you plan on starting a business and gaining clients…is it going to help or hurt your perception if potential leads see that you didn’t finish (or assumed you couldnt finish) college? Could this potentially effect the trust you’ll need for finding customers? Yes.

College is there to teach theory and concepts (foundational skills) more than software and specifics. The latter are easier to learn online.

People make valid points in the comments. Also consider the network you could be getting from going to college and if you are willing miss on that.

As the late Jim Rohn once said, “Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune”. But isn’t what you’re doing a form of self education? You’re only a freshman and I doubt you know much about running a business. There’s so much information online, some good and some useless, you could go broke before you learn what you need to know. Knowing the fundamentals of business management, including accounting and financial management, are essential if you want to be successful. The road to success is always under construction so you should accept that learning should be lifelong. Envision where you want to be in 5 years time. What do you have to do to make that a reality? What will stop you? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What areas of self development do you have to focus on? Be honest with yourself and get on with it.

I’m in a similar situation. Have seen a great deal of success in the past year and taken a semester off and really scaled things to another level where I’m constantly making anywhere from 300-1k$ a day but feel like I could learn a lot from college as well as find like minded individuals which I haven’t found anyone so far in my journey. I don’t think I’d see much of loss of business as I have it down to a pretty good system where I don’t need to do much work. I’m not really getting much guidance from people around me as no one i know is in a similar situation and a lot of people would be 100% satisfied with what I’m doing now but I’m not. I’m gonna make hundreds of millions not hundreds of thousands I just don’t know which route would be more enjoyable/efficient. Also looking to enjoy life a little more as I have been working around 60 hours a week.

I read an article yesterday that employers are increasingly disappointed with what schools have been turning out.

67 percent surveyed said four-year colleges and universities are not supplying the types of graduates needed for the workforce.

Surveyors concluded the “free market lacks confidence in a higher education system that has shifted its focus from academics to WOKE subjects like diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Here is how some employers view it.

“And if you hire someone who has been trained to be a Marxist and an anarchist for the last four years, do you think they’re going to do good things for your culture or bad things for culture?”

Put yourself in employer’s shoes. Do you want someone that knows income statement from balance sheet or someone that knows all there is about pronouns?

Who are employers turning to? The blue collar crowd because they actually know how to do things.

Grandson just graduated from high school. He went to trade school to become lineman for electric utility. Three month program cost $7,500.

He gets certified and CDL license. Starting pay around $25 an hour plus great benefits. There is plenty of overtime available ($37.50 an hour) and advancement potential.

He doesn’t own anyone a dime.