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by watson
4252 days ago
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After you get 8+ years of real world experience doing what you do under belt, your education becomes irrelevant in most fields. So if you've been lucky enough to have someone believe in you without caring about your missing degree, and you do that for enough years, you should be just fine. |
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I'd say luck comes into play in any job. You could have an ivy league background. Now someone thinks you're overqualified for the position, and picks the cheaper candidate.
In my case, it was part luck and part a numbers game. I was 17, and applied at ~30 companies for their IT roles. Why not? It was cheap for me (print resume, mail, follow up over phone) both in resources and time. I took pics with of my racks of older cheap PCs in my parent's basement doing distributed.net's RC5 challenge, all networked and cable tied, proxy configs, etc. It wasn't a hard sell to a decision maker.