The nice thing about forgotten knowledge is that it's much easier to jog the memory and get it back than to learn it from nothing. You likely still use a lot of the fundamental concepts without realizing it.
I am someone who came from a non-traditional, self-taught path ~25 years ago. I did get some formal schooling in electronics, which you'd think was useless, but I can think of a few times solid digital logic understanding has served me well in the past, for example. On the other side of that, I designed some shitty databases early in my career! Understanding normalization could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was new.
The nice thing about forgotten knowledge is that it's much easier to jog the memory and get it back than to learn it from nothing. You likely still use a lot of the fundamental concepts without realizing it.
I am someone who came from a non-traditional, self-taught path ~25 years ago. I did get some formal schooling in electronics, which you'd think was useless, but I can think of a few times solid digital logic understanding has served me well in the past, for example. On the other side of that, I designed some shitty databases early in my career! Understanding normalization could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was new.