And the readers here should be very aware how easy it is to access and use free and independent resources and techniques to teach themselves in the areas of sof

And the readers here should be very aware how easy it is to access and use free and independent resources and techniques to teach themselves in the areas of software and business This element can not be understated. When I want to learn something about Ruby on Rails or Java I have a pile of resources: open source code, free online tutorials, books, forums, StackOverflow, HN, etc. For a lot of other disciplines, this is not the case. You are lucky if there is a book on Amazon that gets close. Forget websites, forget forums, forget open source, there is just no equivalent to all of that. It makes it a lot more difficult to survive without a college degree becuase a lot of times you are rederiving things.