It's easily doable if you work IT contracts - which is what I suggested to Thacker that night up at Sonic - maybe that is what he is doing now, since he basically was doing that before with freelance work. While they generally like college education, they do not always require it. I never went to college and make considerably more. I started with IT contracts. Basically, you start your own corp, work as an employee of your corp, and contract your employee (you) out to companies.