> Can you give some examples where you hid road blocks because of your lack of education? Not a veteran, but I've noticed something very odd about entry level

> Can you give some examples where you hid road blocks because of your lack of education? Not a veteran, but I've noticed something very odd about entry level jobs - they're not challenging. And that is no accident someone hiring you is actually doing that with a clear expectation that the complexity you're about to encounter will fit into their schedules. Higher education is very different - the professors are intentionally trying to push you, hopefully bit-by-bit out of the existing skill range into unknowns. At least mine weren't trying to teach me, they were trying to get me to learn, mostly by making my own stupid mistakes without a huge penalty attached to it. When I moved out of my CS course (and my open-source work building compilers) into my first job, the skill required to do my job satisfactorily was trivial. No more hard problems, just hard timelines. Took a couple of years and changing jobs before again landing up with a problem I didn't know how to solve ("Uh, make PHP5 fast ... Go!"), which helped me grow and learn. That was a lucky break, but I succeeded because my professors had pushed me into the deep end against my wishes (i.e more sleep) before.