A college education helps get you noticed, but experience will help back you up. In the end, you are the one who gives your own degree value. It comes with a se

A college education helps get you noticed, but experience will help back you up. In the end, you are the one who gives your own degree value. It comes with a set value itself, but your personality and experience add to it. I have a degree in psychology and absolutely no regrets for getting that degree, but I'm a web developer, web designer, software engineer. I use psychology all the time. We all do. I have a friend who spent a few months in college and hated it, but he has been a programmer for about 20 years. He has a confident personality and easily negotiates his salary. He knows what he wants and he goes for it. Last time I asked him, he's making around $100k a year as a software developer with no college degree. So it is possible to simply have the experience, but you need to back it up with confidence and the ability to prove it. My initial experience as a programmer was a self-taught and that logic and experience has stuck with me with everything. It definitely is like a muscle and you just learn from your mistakes and only get stronger with every new program you write. I rely more on my college degree for people to take me seriously, but I have spent the past 5-6 years building a professional portfolio and a base of clients, including acquiring recommendations on LinkedIn -- which is probably the most useful feature LinkedIn has. It really does help to have that as people can see those client websites and their testimonials. It definitely has paid off. No regrets on the college degree.. and most companies do require it for them to even notice you nowadays.. my experience in college was awesome and made me who I am today. I fell in love.. got my heart broken... I learned a lot.. made friends who I still keep in touch with today, and its just a time in my life that was good. I would love to go back for my Master's degree, but at this time, I'm at a good place in my life, with a great job -- a career I want to call it that I love and could see myself doing for the next 30 years.