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I’ve had an extremely financially successful career in IT with nothing more than a Boeing $2,700 COBOL programming course in 1982. I’ve worked with people with masters degrees that could not program their way out of a brown paper bag. The singular smatest person in IT I ever worked with had no college. When our mainframe shop was bought out in the mid-1990’s, he learned powerbuilder and became an extremely effective teacher for Sybase.
College is nice, but it is not required except for things like engineering and brain surgery. And if you have a good mirror and hand eye coordination, you can do your own brain surger on yourself. Well, if you get a good manual with pictures you can.
Snowden is a high school dropout. Also...
I personally know a friend’s daughter who:
1. Learned coding practically before she could walk (I have no idea what language...I don’t live in that world);
2. Learned to crack security regimes by messing around with a 386 years ago;
3. Taught herself Japanese and now works for, I believe, Mitsubishi in Kyoto as a security something-or-the-other.
She dropped out of NC’s lousy public school system at 16, soon as she could, and is now making boodles. No GED, nothing. Frighteningly talented.
I stayed at her apartment when visiting Kyoto—it was bigger than my present house.
I am a high school dropout. I have advanced training in Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory training from the USAF and the USN. I taught seven level training in these courses too, and was awarded USAF Master Instructor as a Navy technical instructor. I worked for the Navy as a contractor, training new hire engineers just out of school. My job title was Senior Engineering Technician.
The courses I taught were in great demand in the Aerospace and Defense industries. In four years I only had two disciplinary problems because the students were so highly motivated to receive the training we gave them.
Many defense manufacturers would look for specific military training code numbers when hiring for technical jobs.
You don’t need a degree to persue your goals, but the meritocracy and their HR linebackers and corporate lawyers will try to put a stop to that post-haste. All the more reason to build the better mousetrap in your garage or basement.
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