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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bad idea. It's better to get your degree before you get sucked in by fast easy money and then laid off a decade later with no degree. Not to mention who they would be working for.

Friend of mine went to work for IBM b for the finished college. Was great for about 20 years and then, boom, layoff when he was about 40. Never finished a college degree so couldn't even do IT for state government and it took him a few years to find a decent job. [/quote]

This resonates with me.  If your kid is absolutely going to keep it to a year and is doing this because the opportunity exists now and may not exist 4 years from now, sure, I could see it as beneficial for a kid to get some real world experience at Palantir especially as it relates to coding experience.  However, if that turns into a few years or more, then in the long run, I think the experience will be a disservice to his long-term potential.  I don't think you're going to be able to get the jobs you want or grow professionally without a degree.  I feel like a lot of these kids who are being lured away from college (happens primarily in the tech field because of the history of tech entrepreneurs) now won't all turn into Jobs, or Gates or Zuckerberg and then what ... what's the game plan 20 years from now if you didn't take it upon yourself to get out and get the degree?  [/quote]

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