Good for you.
I suppose I both do and do not fit this pompous elitist’s profile:
I have zero degrees; I am an autodidact.
On the other hand, I always tested in the top half of the top one percent of college-bound students, I garnered multiple awards in science and mathematics, and - after many years of being maligned as inferior by pseudo-intellectuals like David Brooks - I obtained (as an admitted compensatory mechanism) acceptance in Mensa, Intertel, and the Top One Percent Society (with Mensa being the least exclusive of such organizations).
I now understand more than ever why I never liked being classified as an intellectual by those who knew me well enough to recognize my intelligence: I hate supercilious snobbery. (That is why I never joined a High-IQ group in my youth.)
Although I have never participated in many functions with Mensa (the most populous such group), I was pleasantly surprised to find that the snobs in it were in the minority. Many of them are just otherwise ordinary people who happen to enjoy unusual intellectual pursuits.
In case it is needful to say: This Mensan is for Trump.
Autodidact?
You are in good company. I believe Abraham Lincoln learned to read by candlelight and taught himself. Pretty amazing!
School degrees are great but I know a lot of people who are extremely smart but don’t have any degrees.. and they make a heck of a lot more money.
Anyway still paying off my school loans so, you’re better off LOL!!!