Earn decent grades, get into a respectable college, land a good job, and live happily ever after. Plenty of teen agers with highly sought computer skills are skipping school, or at least deferring it for a few years. Besides, Bill Gates ditched Harvard and look what happened to him. It's really crazy for someone with no degree. But I have an extensive resume.
People look at that and they salivate.
The result, he says, is confidence. He also consults for a local law firm's Web site. In his spare time, Dara-Abrams works with his mother on an online education site that will analyze how students learn and tailor lessons appropriately. College is in his plans, although he has no firm timetable about when. But while some kids have found decent incomes without college, most never will, says Tom Mortenson, a higher-education analyst and publisher of the monthly Postsecondary Education Opportunity newsletter.