You have to look at the big picture (Score 1)

The reason that is an issue is not just that teenagers are learning to code or administer Linux. Less education means less income generally. Maybe not in your case, but generally it goes. That is why this is in the news. Let the H1B fiasco remind you that high tech corporations do not want to pay you a dime more than they have to. They want you to be poor.

And as the headlines explain, the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer and the middle class is disappearing. Poor people have historically had to fight for the right to be educated. If you had trouble affording it, then for you maybe the fight is lost. But you should go back, in the evenings or take a couple of years off when you can and just do it. Take that great money you are making and put it back into yourself.

I've met too many people who have given up on higher education whose ideas about anything important are just worthless or just parroting of whoever they let do their thinking. You owe it to yourself to develop your own ideas.