> No matter how good you are, a large portion of companies and recruiters will autotrash your resume without an education section. If the company looks that cl

> No matter how good you are, a large portion of companies and recruiters will autotrash your resume without an education section. If the company looks that closely to academic degrees, it most probably doesn't know how to hire staff. I don't want to be the only competent person around. > ([...] two years or more, a lifetime in this industry) Where "this industry" is "startups plus websites". General IT doesn't move that fast, especially with regard to good tools and ideas. A carefully chosen toolbelt of things that are ten-fifteen-twenty years old is still stronger and more flexible than most of the new sexy applications programmers now use.