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Without a college degree, you are effectively a second class citizen in the workplace. That's a minority of workplaces. There are many workplaces. Choose a bet

Without a college degree, you are effectively a second class citizen in the workplace. That's a minority of workplaces. There are many workplaces. Choose a better one or start your own. You are just as powerful as anyone else, so figure out what creates inefficiency in your area, figure out how to solve it, then build it. Remember we can move to cheap places and be self-reliant during at least the initial phase of company building, so the financial bar to founding may be lowered. If you have no savings at all, you can also take a relatively intellectually uninvolved job with plenty of free time (night security shift supervisor, etc.) to keep you financially afloat while working on your idea. Remember also there is venture capital out there for good ideas, it's not easy to get ... but it's available.

ryanmercer 7y ago
>hat's a minority of workplaces. No, that's nearly every publicly traded company. > or start your own See, here's the Silicon Valley disconnect again. You don't just start a company outside of a place like Silicon Valley and go "hey someone give me a ton of money to do this thing so I can get a building, hire employees, buy furniture and computers, I have a vague idea and no experience!"
- contingencies 7y ago
  Public companies are by definition large and bureaucratic. You are asking for a high-risk, high-touch hiring experience in a large bureaucracy. That is not realistic. Contrary to your assertion, I've never lived or worked in SV. You don't need real estate, employees, furniture or computers to run a company. If you'd tried, you'd know that as I do.