I started blog and Github project, in a year I had a good job. It takes a lot, but there are much more efficient way.
College takes a lot of time and money. If you do this early in your career, it will hobble for decades.
Imagine you spend 30k on education, spend 3 years and get kicked out in final year, because you disagree with teacher. Or someone makes complain.
> Even today, some doors will stay closed for me, simply because... no formal degree
Degree is only needed for higher positions, those are not accessible to young people anyway. You can always get degree latter, it gets so much easier and cheaper, when you have experience . For me it was just a formality, I spend maybe like 200 hours total for my masters.
College takes a lot of time and money. If you do this early in your career, it will hobble for decades.
Imagine you spend 30k on education, spend 3 years and get kicked out in final year, because you disagree with teacher. Or someone makes complain.
> Even today, some doors will stay closed for me, simply because... no formal degree
Degree is only needed for higher positions, those are not accessible to young people anyway. You can always get degree latter, it gets so much easier and cheaper, when you have experience . For me it was just a formality, I spend maybe like 200 hours total for my masters.