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Unfortunately a lot of jobs formerly open only to those with CS or EE degrees went to clueless folks who went to a 6 month "tech school" and managed to get "certified". HR types generally aren't bright enough to understand why hiring these people is a bad idea. This could have only happened during a period like the 90s when companies had convinced venture capitalists that "earnings didn't matter". To be fair I've run across more than a few degreed programmers and engineers who didn't know their a$$ from a whole in the ground. But now that software jobs are no longer trendy, hopefully the clueless will go back to studying mass communications and urban studies. That will leave tech jobs to tech-minded individuals.

I guess I'm somewhat guilty then. I have a business degree, not CS, but I have a staff of 10 CompSci grads who bring the big problems to me, because I've weathered the storms over the years, read constantly, and have seen a lot of real world problems, and most importantly, I still know how to deal with old technology that permeates every IT shop.