Do any engineers need degrees? Does anybody? Before you go too deep down that philosophical rabbit hole just consider one thing. Is it a job that requires a lo

Do any engineers need degrees? Does anybody? Before you go too deep down that philosophical rabbit hole just consider one thing. Is it a job that requires a lot of skill? Any job I've seen that is highly skilled and not in the "get your hands dirty" kind of way usually has a degree behind it. I've seen many kind of engineers without a degree. It's not like you couldn't figure it out on your own for any kind of engineering. The two main problems are commiting enough time to learn it on your own and getting a company to take a chance on you. You can do it without a degree but it will be a lot harder to learn enough and to get your foot in the door. If someone takes a risk on you, you'll probably get paid like crap for a few years too. Is it worth it to do that or just spend 4 years on a degree? Most of the time the answer is a degree. Computer science isn't any different from any other branch of engineering even though developers like to think it's so special