I am a 20 year old network engineer at a CLEC in california. I worked part time from the age of 15 until I turned 18. I have been takeing 12 or less college units per semestor every semestor since I have graduated high school, even summer. Now I have been working full time for two+ years now. I had the same questions as you did, completely. I would have to say working while going to college is an excellent path. College is just a piece of paper, and work experience is good as gold. I started out in this job plugging in computers under desks, and fixing the latest outlook propiagated viruses, and I through hard work have moved into a network r&d position. I can say you definitly do not want to take the easy way out. Take it like a man, and your life will have more meaning and be much more rewarding. good luck.
I personally use OSBS http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html this app works amazingly well, and offers features that have saved my ass a few times. You can hide *nix partitions from winbl0wz, (if you are lame enough to use windows--I used to be guilty of this.) by changing the partiton type from the osbs app. this will keep ms from killing your existing lilo, grub or whatever bootloader. also, make note that this application (the free version. The new release is not open source, or free, can be found on www.bootmanager.com) was released in October of 1993! I personally hate it when people upgrade to the newest release, just for the hell of it. Time can be wasted in more productive ways.
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I am a 20 year old network engineer at a CLEC in california. I worked part time from the age of 15 until I turned 18. I have been takeing 12 or less college units per semestor every semestor since I have graduated high school, even summer. Now I have been working full time for two+ years now. I had the same questions as you did, completely. I would have to say working while going to college is an excellent path. College is just a piece of paper, and work experience is good as gold. I started out in this job plugging in computers under desks, and fixing the latest outlook propiagated viruses, and I through hard work have moved into a network r&d position. I can say you definitly do not want to take the easy way out. Take it like a man, and your life will have more meaning and be much more rewarding. good luck.
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I personally use OSBS http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html this app works amazingly well, and offers features that have saved my ass a few times. You can hide *nix partitions from winbl0wz, (if you are lame enough to use windows--I used to be guilty of this.) by changing the partiton type from the osbs app. this will keep ms from killing your existing lilo, grub or whatever bootloader. also, make note that this application (the free version. The new release is not open source, or free, can be found on www.bootmanager.com) was released in October of 1993! I personally hate it when people upgrade to the newest release, just for the hell of it. Time can be wasted in more productive ways.