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jplante4
Feb 14, 2019Explorer II
I ran into this kind of snobbery all my working life. I taught myself to program starting with Intel assembler. In the early eighties, if you could spell Intel you could get a job. Later, the issue of a degree started coming up on interviews. I did 5 years of night school in math (CS degrees were not available at night) and learned more about tech at my first job at a startup than I did in the 5 years of night school. So I quit throwing my time and money away on school and threw myself into the fray.
I found that no matter how much experience I had in the industry, my prospects were limited because I never got a degree. The world is so tilted toward that piece of paper that it doesn't recognize the value of an education obtained without it.
I found that no matter how much experience I had in the industry, my prospects were limited because I never got a degree. The world is so tilted toward that piece of paper that it doesn't recognize the value of an education obtained without it.
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