Comment by hardwaresofton | Hacker News Reader

Comment by hardwaresofton | Hacker News Reader

IMO: If you're not too bad off on money, finish college and work on startups as you finish it.

The amount of free time you have in college is ridiculous, and the gathering of minds is a real thing, if you have smart faculty, and you have smart students, use them (a lot of startup stories seem to start with "I got together with a friend of mine from college"). Also, a lot of the stuff in computer science that doesn't change over the years is what a good curriculum will teach.

As in, learn spanning tree algorithms, computer architecture (and why things are built how they are), graph theory, whereas you might be learning topics like "how dependency injection works in AngularJS" outside of school (which isn't BAD, but it's not timeless, graph theory is pretty timeless).

Im not doing too bad(about 45k/per year) and still living at home (only 20yo). But how hard would it be to try and go to school while working at a startup style company after moving from out of state? I heard they are a lot more time consuming than normal companies (50-60 hours per week vs 40).

Well I actually meant if tuition wasn't too bad (unless that's what you were talking about) -- and you don't have to make excuses for living at home, cost benefits are super huge ;)

So I recently just graduated, and I worked (at internships during school AND summers, pretty much ~30 hrs a week), and I had plenty of free time, I just used it unwisely (generally).

I haven't worked in a startup, so I can't really give you the most accurate of time measurements, but if you're working on something you like, I'm pretty sure you won't even feel 50 hrs a week go by. Also, in a company that is fully aware that you are still in school shouldn't really be expecting 60 hours. And if they do, you can use that as leverage for more flexible working locations (like the ability to do most of your work from home/on-the-go). But generally it doesn't seem like any reasonable person would expect you to work 60 hours (as a new hire) while going to school. Doesn't seem healthy

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