Have Things Changed That Much Since '95?
I have two sons who both grew up playing around with the family computer and both dropped out of school after two years of college. One quit because he wasn't sure what he wanted to study, the other because he took one computer system design course and decided he knew as much as the instructor. Both got jobs in the IT field immediately. For one it was a part time job at the university that grew into a full time system administrator job in less than a year with excellent pay. The other got a jobsetting up systems/networks as well as on site troubleshooting/repair. Today he has a very high paying job in the customer support field at SGI. Has the IT job market changed that much since 1995?