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Do It Without College? (Patreon)

Published:
2023-01-30 01:26:34
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2023-04

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https://youtu.be/0KP57nOPai8

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Do It Without College?

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Circuitmike

This video really spoke to me, 'cause although I've been working in IT since 1995, I'm a high-school dropout and have almost no college degree (a 2-year liberal arts degree from a community college). All my programming, networking, and system administration skills were self-taught and/or learned on the job. I've spent much of my career working in higher education, which is surprisingly pretty open to non-degree holders. Job requirements are often listed as "Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience." That phrase has been the basis of most of my career! I have run up on one or two jobs I wanted to apply for that had hard degree requirements, and that sucks, but on the whole I've done well. IT jobs in higher ed often don't pay nearly as well as private industry does, but they're also much lower stress positions. You rarely work more than 40 hours a week and/or get called after hours. People are generally very cool to work with. There are always exceptions and toxic workplaces exist in higher ed, sure, but on the whole it beats the shit out of working in the corporate world. You'll be pleased to know that, at least here in western Massachusetts where I am, vocational technical schools are still a thing, and they've acquired an excellent reputation. When I was in high school in the 80's "the Tech" was the place the problem kids went. I was interested and my parents strongly discouraged it (I dropped out of high school and went to community college instead). I still wish I'd gone. These days those technical high schools have way more applicants than slots and thus have gotten downright competitive. They teach all the traditional trades, plus things like CAD/CAM manufacturing, computer networking, and more. They're such a good option. If you do want to go the college route, the only sensible way aside from full academic or sports scholarships is to do 2 years at a community college, then transfer to a state school. It's still expensive but WAY less than $100K+.

Anonymous

A lot of Engineering jobs hire Techs with no degree to do the same thing as the Engineer usually for less money. If you want to design and have no degree buy "The art of Electronics" 2nd and 3rd edition. I got my degree using the military GI bill due to the cost and being poor. Most of the stuff I learned is not used. The high tuition today is just to keep you in debt and under the corporate foot. I believe MIT has free classes you can just watch if you just want to learn Engineering stuff. The reason why an older Engineer has difficultly getting employed is Age. There is just a flood of Engineers vs jobs out there. 25 years old, work 60+ hours for 40 hrs new grad salary is what they want. Fear is how they hire.