I sold my HOUSE to do this for a living - also my car and my motorcycle and my grandmother for medical experiments.
If you want an education in the dive industry, the best place to learn about it is in the dive industry - there is nothing they can teach you in a classroom that will equate to the real world of functioning in a cut-throat business full of people who are, for want of a better word, idiots. (ScubaBoarders excepted, of course! )
Live some life and don't expect it to be handed to you on a $20,000 silver platter; make your own way, see it for yourself and learn from your peers.
TsandM - do you know any surgical procedures that can disconnect my tongue from the inside of my cheek?
If I knew the procedure, I wouldn't do it. This post is way too delicious for that! Sold your grandmother . . .