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I have a lot of thoughts about this. A very good friend of mine, and myself, found ourselves thinking similarly several years ago... I decided to stay in school, he decided not to.
The bottom line is, intellectually we are still at the same place. I am enormously in debt, he isn't. I have done a lot of networking, he hasn't. In my opinion, the days of single-handedly defining a field regardless of background are over... the bottom line is that networking is what is going to get you a job and get you into a respected position of the field regardless of your ability to learn on your own.
Programming is a different thing, because it's still new, theoretical math, however...
Anyway, if you do indeed intend, and dedicate yourself, to going back after getting a head-start, it could be incredibly beneficial to the networking process...
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