I'm a college sophomore in my second semester. Nearly half way through getting my degree.
Although 2 years doesn't sound like a lot of time left until I get my bachelor's in Computer Science, it takes up a lot of my time, and I'm not able to start a business.

I know for a fact that with or without college, I will be successful in my career field. However, the more time taken from me in college, the less time I have to program the software I have in mind for starting my own business, which I know will be a success. I've done a lot of reading on start-up business mistakes, and I know just what to do to make it work.

Thing is, the more I work as a programmer at my current job, the more I realize a degree isn't required for basically any programming job. It's all about what you have to show for yourself, like side projects.

Highly debating dropping out of college to start my business. On the other hand, it would be nice to finish college and get a degree, I'm just worried that within 2 years, someone else will have a business model similar to what I've developed.

Pros and cons of dropping out to start a business would be helpful  

What if you finished with an associates in computer science and got an associates in business management/entrepreneurship  

Well some people don't get a degree and are highly successful.

I mean Steve Jobs didn't graduate college and we all know that he did pretty well. Here's some more examples: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/249683

If you really want to get a degree anyways, which I could understand, you could always take a break and come back. Keep in mind that people who take a break don't always come back.

However, people have taken years or so off and came back, or not, and still been successful. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...ain-later.html

I don't know a whole lot about this but if you don't think you need a degree to be successful then I'd say to go for it  

It sounds like your mind is nearly made up already, but you're just afraid that you might later regret dropping out. Try and get an appointment with the Dean to see if you can take a semester or a year off of college, and come back if your other endeavors don't work as planned. My friend did the same thing (for 1 semester, not sure if it will apply to longer lengths of time) and it wasn't too hard for him to do.  

Posted by Fulgore

It sounds like your mind is nearly made up already, but you're just afraid that you might later regret dropping out. Try and get an appointment with the Dean to see if you can take a semester or a year off of college, and come back if your other endeavors don't work as planned. My friend did the same thing (for 1 semester, not sure if it will apply to longer lengths of time) and it wasn't too hard for him to do.

I also have a friend taking a semester off college to figure out his plan. Definitely a good idea if you're lost.  

Do what you want. You can always go back to college full-time or part-time and just pick up where you left off.  

I'm nowhere near going to college yet so I don't really know what its like but what fulgore said sounds good to me  

why r u asking graalians to help you decide your future  

Posted by tricklebean

why r u asking graalians to help you decide your future

Why not? We're the brightest group on the internet

But ya, take some time off if you need and see where your plans take you  

when you become famous, don't forget about us  

my dad always told me that if you drop out of college you most likely wont go back.

of course there are people who do, but i majority do not.  

You could take a break, as you've been told by several other people in the thread already. However, I would strongly advice you to have a plan of how you're going to earn your living if you do decide to drop out of college. If you don't have a well thought out plan, you might just end up working all the time where you were supposed to plan and start up your business. An option is to move back home, but if your family is anything like mine, then they would be quite mad for dropping out.

Don't you have the option of working on projects like starting up your own business at college? The college I attended in the US did, and so does a lot of Norwegian Universities, but I don't know how it's like at your college. Maybe you could ask someone at your college about such an opportunity?  

Posted by Guri

Don't you have the option of working on projects like starting up your own business at college?

Yes, I almost applied for a funding on my project where they would pay me $4,200 over the course of a few months to develop my business and do research.
However, they didn't have a clear answer when I asked who owns the product on completion, me or the school.

I've decided I'll finish out the semester, work on starting my company over the summer, then I'll decide if moving onto my junior year is a viable option  

Posted by Fysez

Yes, I almost applied for a funding on my project where they would pay me $4,200 over the course of a few months to develop my business and do research.
However, they didn't have a clear answer when I asked who owns the product on completion, me or the school.

I've decided I'll finish out the semester, work on starting my company over the summer, then I'll decide if moving onto my junior year is a viable option

Yeah, if they don't give you a clear answer of who owns the product on completion, it's probably not a good idea to go for this option..

Sounds like you've made a good decision, best of luck!  

Fysez is there actually a good amount of opportunity for programmers in LA?