752 Why I Dropped Out Of College As A Programmer (And Made Millions) - Simple Programmer Podcast

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When I first started out my career as a software developer, I didn't have a degree.

I took my first real job when I was on summer break from my first year of college. By the time the summer was up and it was time to enroll back in school, I found that the salary I was making from that summer job was about what I had expected to make when I graduated college—only I didn't have any debt at this point—so, I dropped out and kept the job.

But, did I make the right choice?

Do you really need a university degree to be a computer programmer?

If you don't have a degree, you are probably more inclined to believe that degrees are worthless and completely unnecessary—even though you may secretly wish you had one.

So, whatever side you fall on, I am going to ask you to momentarily suspend your beliefs—well, biases really—and consider that both views are not exactly correct, that there is a middle-ground somewhere in between the two viewpoints where a degree isn't necessarily worthless and it isn't necessarily valuable either.

You see, the issue is not really whether or not a particular degree has any value. The degree itself represents nothing but a cost paid and time committed. A degree can be acquired by many different methods, none of which guarantee any real learning has taken place. If you've ever taken a college course, you know that it is more than possible to pass that course without actually learning much at all.

In today's video, I'm going to talk about why I dropeed out of my computer science major and if you should do the same, as a software developer.