yep that's why I'm a junior in college and dropping out. I was studying engineering but never saw myself as one, just wanted the problem solver label. I fortunately made friends with brilliant people and believe one day we'll be running a billion dollar company.
but you're spot on, in the real world you learn way more through experience and living life, not to mention the future of robots taking jobs, in addition to that its not extremely hard to learn a blue collar trade and start a business and grow it to a large scale.
Congrats on the opportunity! Nice to hear you found some people and some work that could be a success.