I'm an autodidact that managed to earn ~100k without formal education with programming, and then got some formal education in something else just for the fun of

I'm an autodidact that managed to earn ~100k without formal education with programming, and then got some formal education in something else just for the fun of it. I don't like it when people use their adacemic experience (or lack of it) to bludgeon people that have backgrounds different from their own. I think drawing those kinds of distinctions in headlines is unproductive and foolish.