While you don't need it, it definitely helps you throughout your career. Not the degree per se (the piece of paper), but the breadth of what you learn. I find

While you don't need it, it definitely helps you throughout your career. Not the degree per se (the piece of paper), but the breadth of what you learn. I find most people who have "really made it" without a degree to be exceptionally bright and wouldn't have needed the push/discipline of a college education anyways.