> I should add that you also don't gain Academic cred that puts you on a kind of adjacent track on the whole class system Not just class system, but also care

> I should add that you also don't gain Academic cred that puts you on a kind of adjacent track on the whole class system Not just class system, but also career track. If a DotCom 2.0 bust happens tomorrow, I can bail on tech of a half dozen other fields -- I have the network and the knowledge base to find high five/low six salaries outside of software. That's probably less true for me-N-years-ago, who could program certain things real good but that was about it.