Mntsnow
12-22-2004, 7:14 AM
Caleb Sima still marvels at how angry the people around him got when he fled high school at 16 for a computer job during the high-tech boom, thumbing his nose at the traditional career path.
Skipping college, they warned, would be a foolish route to nowhere. "One day, I'm going to see you taking out my trash," his principal told him.
Ha.
Boasting a six-figure salary as chief technology officer of an online security company, Sima is one of a select group of young techies who hit it big without an academic pedigree after technology and Internet-related businesses exploded in the late 1990s. Read more at
DeseretNews (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595113732,00.html)
Skipping college, they warned, would be a foolish route to nowhere. "One day, I'm going to see you taking out my trash," his principal told him.
Ha.
Boasting a six-figure salary as chief technology officer of an online security company, Sima is one of a select group of young techies who hit it big without an academic pedigree after technology and Internet-related businesses exploded in the late 1990s. Read more at
DeseretNews (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595113732,00.html)