I quit in the middle of uni to start an IT support company, and have been bouncing around in the industry since. I have never had much of an issue with a lack o

I quit in the middle of uni to start an IT support company, and have been bouncing around in the industry since. I have never had much of an issue with a lack of degree, but thats mostly because I operate by word of mouth for jobs, and I have a fairly unique level of experience for a sysadmin. What I have seen being done though, not just to me, is companies using no degree as an excuse to underpay for a position. This usually only works with experienced people like myself. The company says, "ok, he seems like he can do the job, but he doesn't have a degree. That's good, because we can take 10-20k off the salary for the position and still get roughly the same level of work out of him." Also, if I am ever doing contract/job searching, it's usually word of mouth. If a company requires me to resubmit my resume in their wierd online portal and reenter every detail about myself in someother HR system to make it past the HR gods, I don't even bother with them. I'm guessing places like that would be more likley to weed out non-degree holders, while word of mouth/good ol boy network jobs are much more about your experience.