>Probably, it's all depends on personal attitude, e.g. it seems to me as highly arguable the sentence that memorizing things you'll never need again is just waste. Ultimately, everything is waste in some sense, and isn't because of human nature, curious and unpredictable, and I wouldn't streamline it so much.

Maybe it's best to agree to disagree. You'll never convince me the last six years were a productive use of my time. I'm 25k in debt when I could have been making 30k a year for the last 5 years under a better (to me) system. I'd trade 6 years of garbage for 5 years of professional programming experience in a heartbeat.

-Michelle