Unlike many other fields, I would wager that the vast bulk of IT staff were mostly self-taught and many have a lifetime of experience in their field. For those

Unlike many other fields, I would wager that the vast bulk of IT staff were mostly self-taught and many have a lifetime of experience in their field. For those people, school in fact got in the way of their education and career track as it was simply less time they could spend self-educating. Until college, schools generally do a very poor job at teaching STEM.