I just graduated from college with a CS degree and got hired for the company i've been interning for for two years. I'm not making a fortune by any means but I'm in my own place, rent and bills are really cheap, company benefits & 401k is great, and our IT operation is two people (and the other 200 or so employees aren't what you could call computer literate) so management lets us do our own thing. I'm a huge web design / photoshop buff and I've already gotten some sweet assignments relating to that, and I have a shot to re-do the company website in-house. so i'm happy.
I don't think a college degree should dictate salary (christ, we have some guys at our company come back from school with an MBA and expect their salary to double automatically) but I do believe that college is vital and helpful for people skills and figuring yourself out. Hell, the company I work for won't even hire you for a salaried position unless you have a degee. Most of my friends that didn't go to college definitely still have the mindset of a high school student. Obviously there are exceptions to this rule but Info Tech and other CS related careers are some of the only decently paid salaried positions I know of that don't require you to have a degree outright.
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I just graduated from college with a CS degree and got hired for the company i've been interning for for two years. I'm not making a fortune by any means but I'm in my own place, rent and bills are really cheap, company benefits & 401k is great, and our IT operation is two people (and the other 200 or so employees aren't what you could call computer literate) so management lets us do our own thing. I'm a huge web design / photoshop buff and I've already gotten some sweet assignments relating to that, and I have a shot to re-do the company website in-house. so i'm happy.
I don't think a college degree should dictate salary (christ, we have some guys at our company come back from school with an MBA and expect their salary to double automatically) but I do believe that college is vital and helpful for people skills and figuring yourself out. Hell, the company I work for won't even hire you for a salaried position unless you have a degee. Most of my friends that didn't go to college definitely still have the mindset of a high school student. Obviously there are exceptions to this rule but Info Tech and other CS related careers are some of the only decently paid salaried positions I know of that don't require you to have a degree outright.
Just do what I do and don't buy her anything unless you absolutely have to