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trilerian:
I appreciate the sincere replies.  To answer the big question...  I would say that I would not be pursuing an EE degree to become an EE.  I would be pursuing the degree to gain the knowledge I feel I need to be more competent in the field and hopefully get better at designing my projects.  But maybe that just comes with the experience of doing it to begin with, right?  Fake it until you make it?  I would say though, that if I got an EE degree, I probably would look to change careers. 

And yes, I do understand an EE degree would be extremely difficult, hence some of my hesitation.   

Infraviolet:
If you were "younger" that is to say earlier in your career I'd definitely recommend a degree, and then a PhD. But as you've already got a career, and you've already got a side business started up using your skills, I'm not sure a degree would benefit you that much. Some online courses maybe might be worthwhile to give you a deeper understanding of electronics, or in your situation some sort of "coaching" for how to grow a business, but not a formal degree. A degree will teach you the fundamentals of a subject, but you probably already know them. It will also teach you best practices (industry standard: CAD...) common in wider business in the field, but you've already learnt some sort of practice, so you might well have to unlearn this first. And while if you were going in to a job working for/with others in the field that would be valuable, for someone already able to do what they need to (with your informal understanding of things you seem to be already making things which work well?), by the means they're already using, it might not be very worthwhile.

"I study what I need to study to complete a project" I've known that feeling ever since mid-way through my PhD*, to do otherwise now would be absolute torture for me thesedays. I suspect it might be for you too. In a degree you study an awful lot of stuff you don't immediately, or perhaps ever, need, because you should know it to be fully rounded in the subject. I don't know if I could manage that again after my first degree and my starting years of the PhD. Ask yourself if you could manage it?

I can't recommend a particular online course, but I strongly suspect a good one could give you the understanding you might want to add to your current abilities more straightforwardly than a degree could. The point of a degree is to enter you in to a field, and do so in a formaly recognised way, but you seem to already in the field in practice.

*My undergrad wasn't in electronics, my PhD was, in theory. In practice my PhD was in an electronics department, but I was doing robotics, so while I did a lot of stuff with circuitry it was informal "work out a design to aid this electromechanical embedded software assisted system in meeting that goal and debug until it does the job", not electronics from the starting point of theory onward.

P.S. "I'm scared of all the other mcu's out there, lol" In your context you might not even need to program others, for what you do. But if you do, you pick an alternative which meets your requirements for hardware/performance/package footprint... and apply the same techniques as you have for the 328p, just with the particular registers which interact with hardware changed. You don't have to use arduino libraries for it, but as I suspect, given its the 328p you've learnt, that you're familiar with the arduino IDE, you'll find vast numbers of other microcontrollers for which the chip-specific compilation and the flashing of code to the MCU can be performed by that IDE directly, or by it coupled with a programmer device such as "Arduino as ISP" (you write a program to an arduino which reads from the serial port shared with the PC and then uses that to pass the program over ICSP wires to the chip you're flashing). A degree would probably just pick one MCU throughout for the most part, and teach you that one in almost all contexts, prhaps one module where you encounter somthing different. And thesedays the one the degree focuses on might well be the 328p anyway.

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