That’d be the conventional wisdom.
I only have my H.S. diploma.
No college degree.
Certainly no fancy-pants Master’s or doctorate. I’m just a lowly web developer building “boring” web sites for equally boring and uneducated people. To hear the know-it-alls tell it, anyway.
But, as I sit here…
On the land I own free and clear…
Looking at the house I’m building (and own free and clear)…
Pondering all the student loan debt I DON’T have…
I can’t help but think:
“This moron has done pretty damn well for himself.”
Some might call that arrogant. Other (smarter) people might see the lesson in it. Regardless, I think it’s becoming more and more obvious what a raw deal college is. And, specifically, talking about tech…
In my humble, but accurate, opinion…
There’s very few tech jobs that actually require a degree.
Sure, a few here and there.
But, far less than the screechers who will send me hate-mail about this would like you to believe. In most cases… a boot camp, an online course, hell just YouTube somtimes… will not only be cheaper, but give you a better education.
That and you don’t have to worry about all the “safe-spacers”…
And, purple-haired weirdos that tend to populate colleges these days.
In any case, do what you want…
I’m just giving you an alternate perspective.
You can be plenty happy…
And, do more than fine financially…
Without a bunch of letters behind your name.
(And, a bunch of zeroes in your debt column.)
Of course, as you know, MY coding curriculum is available to you for ONE zero… as in… zip, nada, zilch-o. Object-oriented programming, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, PHP, freelancing, Upwork and much more…
The whole shabang for nothing.
All the details on that are right cheer: https://johnmorrisonline.com/skillshare
Later,
John