It’s always been skills over pedigree. I never even got a bachelors, the word-of-mouth network kept me employed for 30 years in engineering and management positions. Had a couple of degreed co-workers who resented it, but so it goes.
(It ain’t bragging if you can do it.)
“(It ain’t bragging if you can do it.)”
I like to call it, “being smarter than the average bear!” Thanks Yogi!
Myself and two friends had consulting software development jobs a few years ago, to a company where everyone had advanced degrees. We did not, and were hired to bring a blue-sky software idea to reality.
The president of the company asked our manager why we were being paid $60/hr (a lot in 1988) when we didn’t even have PhDs. The manager said it was BECAUSE we didn’t have PhDs that we were paid so much.
However, in this article, if you read it, it is about a way to bring in more black people by eliminating degree requirements. In other words the reason is wokeness, not talent.
Myself and two friends had consulting software development jobs a few years ago, to a company where everyone had advanced degrees. We did not, and were hired to bring a blue-sky software idea to reality.
The president of the company asked our manager why we were being paid $60/hr (a lot in 1988) when we didn’t even have PhDs. The manager said it was BECAUSE we didn’t have PhDs that we were paid so much.
Kudos to you
My dad (BS in Ceramic Engineering) ran an engineering department for PPG. He always told me his best engineer never went to college.
Enterprise Rent a Car has ads during NCAA football boasting that they hire more college graduates than anyone else. For what, assistant manager? That job used to filled by the high school kid who washed and vacuumed the cars, then worked the counter on weekends, then worked the counter during the week, then became the assistant manager.
When I was accounting manager my best employee was a jr accountant who worked his way up from clerk. I was never allowed to promote him because he had no college degree. But all the college grads we did hire as full accountants were trained by him, and then they ended up promoted over him