Get the education!!! It doesn't matter in what (unless you are studying history, many of the facts you lean will be obsolete 20 years after graduation). You will be learning how to learn, and those skills will enable you to keep learning for the rest of your life. You can teach yourself anything once you are grounded in the principles of research, analysis, and writing clearly. (The only way I can be sure I understand something is if I can explain it to someone else.) There are jobs that I couldn't have applied for if I didn't have a BA. It also helps if you end up managing projects or teams. What if you want to apply for a government grant to fund a photography project or to a corporation to fund a book? That 4 year degree says that you can be disciplined enough to work at and achieve something. A striking portfolio image could be a stroke of luck, but a degree says that you can commit to an undertaking and complete it. Don't limit yourself to what your uncles have done. You like working on cars? What about Martian rovers or those robots that go down into volcanoes and collect data? Or that flying bicycle? There are lots of souped up vehicles coming out of the labs! You may end up combining photography with robotics and cars (those rovers are sending back pictures, aren't they?)... but you'll never know unless you get exposed to the classes and the professors who push the dreams. Carolly