Re: a degree - this is not my experience. I used to feel that way, but around 2013 my perspective changed. I don’t have a degree; I went to college after high s

Re: a degree - this is not my experience. I used to feel that way, but around 2013 my perspective changed. I don’t have a degree; I went to college after high school and failed miserably my first semester due to a plethora of personal issues, chief among them being undiagnosed chronic depression. I was pursuing a Bachelor’s through WGU from 2012-2013 when I jumped ship from an establish “enterprise” company to a startup, and from that point forward I don’t feel like anyone really cares whether I have a degree or not. I see startups as my niche. My sweet spot for potential employers is a startup that has been in business for 1-3 years and is either profitable or obviously well along the path there. I like to jump into existing codebases with technical debt and spend my time working toward making them more flexible. I like to understand new business processes and use that understanding to avoid a project getting painted into a corner by the logic crystallizing into an immutable black box that everyone is afraid to touch because it’s essential and the people who originally wrote it are no longer on the team.