I can only talk to you from my own experience, I can't pretend to be Bill Gates, Paul Allen or Larry Ellison, who through some confluence of luck and skill attained heights we mere mortals can only dream of. I am 58 years old and started programming in 1971 in assembler language on a CDC 6600 at my college NYU. I went on to get a BA in Math and Computer Science and two Master's Degrees, one in Mathematics and one in Computer Science. Today, I am a Senior Software Engineer at General Atomics in San Diego. My great regret in life is that I too was bored with school getting my first Master's degree and left school to work for General Motors in Detroit before I could complete my PhD program. I have always felt that I would have gone much further in my career endeavors had I completed my PhD. Other people I have spoken to feel just the opposite, that an advanced degree or any degree at all mean little in corporate America, but I look around me and the majority of successful people that I know (the three aforementioned entrepreneurs aside) all have advanced degrees of some kind. I say to you from my experience, stick it out in school, get your degree, the job will come naturally after that. I was 25 also before I got my first job, and from where I sit now I'd love to be 25 again. Its a wonderful time of life, so as bored as you seem to be, enjoy it while you can, life goes by very quickly!