S - you got good advice so far. You will need to develop patience, and when you've got that, it will stand you in good stead as a manager. Entrepreneurs are a breed of their own, and generally don't do too well as executives at coporates in any case - so decide what it is exactly you're aiming towards here. No matter what path you choose, your degree will stand you in good stead, what are you studying anyway? If you want a big business where you can make a killing one day, weather it be by paying yourself in divis, big salary, or building it to sell to someone else - your degree will help you do it, but even there you'll proove your stuff and learn your ways by starting small businesses, which will teach you all sorts of important things about people and products that you SIMPLY CANNOT get in books. Small businesses which fail, and you either turn them around or start another one and succeed, what goes into your cv when you did that will look a lot different that what you did up to now and will speak to employers and investers in a different way to what you are able to communicate at 19. And no, you're not expected to get a degree and then wait 15 years before you can get that dream job. What's important is demonstrating strength of character, and you can only do that by showing your discipline over a number of years throughout your youth and adult life. If you flunked at school, then shone in matric, then flunked out of your first degree and shone in your second ... will say alot. Consistency is key to success, as is confidence, experience, tenacity, people skills, asset management, keeping appointments, attendance, going the extra mile, initiative, lateral thinking, maturity etc. Noone will give you a shot at a senior position until you have outshone your peers in a variety of junior positions and after displaying a variety of strengths in character. Noone gets their dream job strait out of uni. Grades are not everything, and neither is experience. You need to perform, everywhere, consistently. You need to show that you can set your own goals, and drive yourself toward achieving them, every time. Then you'll start getting shots at setting goals for others and for corporates to see if you can motivate, direct and manage resources.