> “You should go to college and get a Master’s degree and get a doctorate and publish a lot of papers on ordinary things -
scientists and investors won’t listen to you otherwise.” Even assuming that I tested out of the bachelor’s degree…
You can “test out of” every step to the ladder, and go straight to post-doc/professor equivalent by publishing multiple well-respected papers (and not necessarily on ordinary things) in top journals.
> “You should go to college and get a Master’s degree and get a doctorate and publish a lot of papers on ordinary things -