IMO if need just get a job then having degree should help. If you enjoy building stuff and have curiosity then it will be more fun to learn it by yourself. Lear

IMO if need just get a job then having degree should help. If you enjoy building stuff and have curiosity then it will be more fun to learn it by yourself. Learning a language and basic concepts can take just few months, but that is just a beginning of an endless journey. The skill of learning by yourself is probably most important for engineers because there are always new things to learn, and every job will require you to learn something new. Keep in mind there are many other things that we can learn https://medium.com/our-team/the-tale-of-the-two-lumberjacks-64f575d93d6 https://medium.com/our-team/the-tale-of-the-two-lumberjacks-... Knowledge should be like a lake, wide and deeper in a middle