By the way...it's worth mentioning that I've been quite miserable in school about 50% of the time. The workload has been really insane and for many assignments autograders are used, which are absolutely merciless if your output deviates even the slightest bit from the solution's, which we never had access to. That and it felt like very little of my experience outside school was pretty much useless.
If you decide to go and feel like the assignments are boring and tedious, just stick through it. there are a lot of much needed courses to prepare you for the second two years. Once you get there, the first two years will make sense.
Thanks a lot for the reply it is definitely pretty inspirational. My problem right now is that none of my math credits would transfer to CS so it would take about 3 years to complete a new BS in CS. I am just not sure if I could do that financially right now. I think I am going to look into going part time while I am working or maybe doing online classes.
can you get financial aid/scholarships?
why won't your math transfer?
you can try to "test through" some of the math by taking placement tests. could be a disadvantage for you later though, probably not in your CS program because it's more discrete math/probability/combinatorics heavy, but BS/CS usually has to take the physics sequence, which requires it.
on second thought, you also want to get very good at linear algebra. can you knock out the math at a local community college?
If you decide to go and feel like the assignments are boring and tedious, just stick through it. there are a lot of much needed courses to prepare you for the second two years. Once you get there, the first two years will make sense.