<prompt> Human: When I was really young I got experience with coding. This got me a job at a Fortune 500 company while in high school but I quit because they undervalued me and now Im employed as a software developer at growing tech company. I started out at 30k working as a lower level dev and then was offered a job by a huge company and they doubled my salary and promoted me to my dream job. I live in a state with low cost of living and 60k is about 40 more than the average household income.I was planning on going to college to study computer science but now I dont know what to do. Im currently enrolled to go but can cancel before summer ends. My parents and friends really want me to go, but I dont know if I should.After scholarships I would only pay about 5-10k for my first year. I have enough money to pay for my first year in cash, its not the debt that bothers me. What bothers me is I have conflicting feelings because I already have the job I would get out of college. But I also dont want to miss the college experience and friends.People dont take me seriously because of my age just graduated hs and lack of degree. My fear is that I wont be able to get another high paying job if I get fired, but they REALLY want me to stay at their company. My resume is very strong and I have about the equivalent experience of a college graduate with 2 years of work.Everyone that I ask for advice tells me to go to get a degree. Im currently planning on working until I make a decision. If I decide to go to college Im going to ask my employer to work for them during the summers. I also think I might ask them a month before college to give me a big raise to convince me to not go they talked about not wanting me to go to college and they really value me and I love my job. Please help me. I need a better perspective maybe from people that didnt go to college and those who did.EDIT: the university Im planning on attending is the best school in my state. I want to go somewhere where I not only get a piece of paper that says Im qualified but I actually learn Im not experienced with really low level stuff like writing a compiler and I know you do that in college comp-sci. PROBLEM: it is a college town and it is 8 hours from my work. My community college does not offer Computer Science rural-ish state.EDIT EDIT: I have the general college credits done from my community college, I did dual-credit courses in high school.  <response>: The job market for tech is strange. Id you have a good profile but no education. The businesses that know this will hire you, but not the ones that require degrees. My advice would be to go to college part time maybe you can get your company to pay for it but I doubt youll have a hard time getting a job so long as youre a decent coder. I would not give up a 60k job at your age to solely go to school. Youll have more business experience than new college recruits when they graduate in 4 yearsAs far as the degree is concerned, youll likely learn more in your company about modern coding than the school will teach you 