Hi Warriors, please help shed light on this time-sensitive situation...

If you can control it.. "IM" is the best thing ever.. "Digital Entrepreneurship".. Work for yourself..

Hey man, I totally know what you are going through, as I experienced the same situation a few years back when I was in college. But I chose to finish college then invest my career in IM after graduation. My reason is simple, regardless of whether it being worth it or not in the workforce, what you learn in college may not necessarily your major, but really the discipline, the network, the experience in life throughout your college years.

I worked for a few years after college and I know what you mean man, work for "the men" is a pain, so I left and fully commit into IM. Now I have a bit of success in IM and I love it and really enjoyed it.

But again, I really think its extremely important to finish that degree, regardless of being an art degree or a health science degree.

Eventually, you could be using that knowledge to create your own product, teaching people what you learned from your own experience. It doesnt have to be something relate to art (if your an art major), it could be some self-improvement skills you've developed and mastered during your college careers.

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Alex.

I hear you there. I think people's answers to this question vary greatly. Personally, I have no doubt that I'd be far worse off in IM if I hadn't finished my degree.

I don't think it even matters very much exactly what one studies at college: it's more the process of doing it, and the thinking/learning skills acquired during that process, that matter. Those are close-to-essential for running your own business.

Education is about what stays with you long after all the "precise stuff you learned" has been forgotten. With occasional vocational exceptions like business, law, accounting and medicine, it isn't really about "earning money", and it shouldn't be. My "formal, academic education" has been majorly and directly useful to me in setting up and running my internet marketing business successfully: I wouldn't be nearly so successful without it, because I wouldn't have developed the judgment and learning and analytical skills necessary to apply to new and different and unrelated situations.

And of course that's the true purpose and value of education, or "why people go to college".

Good luck and good wishes, however it works out for you!

Who knows where you'd be. You've been dabbling and haven't achieved anything significant enough to throw away a college education. Ask yourself another question. If IM doesn't work out, and it doesn't work out for a lot of people, what will you be prepared to do to earn a living? Flip hamburgers or something better due to a college education?

Don't throw away your education for a dream that hasn't realized yet. You have a whole long life ahead of you and you have no idea what is coming.

Go to college!!! I quit to do other things and now I am back there. It is much harder to go back when you get older because you have kids and mortgages and red the steady income.

I was in a similar situation in college. The only thing I can recommend in stay on the ball studying and make seperate time for IM. For example, make an 1-2 hours for IM a day. If you are really passionate about it then you will be able to find the tme. Otherwise, you may consider reducting your course load at college but make sure that won't affect your enrollement status or funding.

I suffer from ADD/ADHD also and know that meds and/or brain training (focus) are both good ways to deal with it.

A formal college education is only as important as you make it. I was very happy with my college experiences both socially and intellectually. It made me a better person for my dedication to my studies and offered me an environment outside my hometown to experience the melting pot culture.

Great advice from Jeremy there! But dont get carried away. Stick to the plan. Its hard so you need high self-discipline, and persistence.

Getting the college degree makes sense as it's something to fall back on if you can't make IM work for you as so many can't.

Focus on your degree,you can always do the IM thing while you are still in school but do not let it interfere with your school work.Its a proven fact that 98% of marketers fail so what happens to you if you are not in that 2%? Finish school so you have something to fall back on if you don't make that 2%. I'm just saying...