> You need an actual degree, if not a masters or doctorate to play. That's why there's a shortage. That's part of why there is a shortage. The other part is t

> You need an actual degree, if not a masters or doctorate to play. That's why there's a shortage. That's part of why there is a shortage. The other part is that the companies in the industry either have standards that are too high (must have years of recent experience in their particular laundry list) or don't know what they are actually looking for. I have the degree, I have years of real-time sensor experience, but nobody will talk to me because I have been doing NLP for the past four years.