I studied EE in Canada as well in the early 90s. My tuition was less than $2500/year but I had a scholarship that paid for it. For me it was worth it. I immedi

I studied EE in Canada as well in the early 90s. My tuition was less than $2500/year but I had a scholarship that paid for it. For me it was worth it. I immediately went into programming, and taught myself everything. While being useless for programming, my EE degree gave me a foot in the door and I made the most of it. I started in a bank in IT but was able to move into programming by lying and saying I was a full time programmer. I was doing programming on my own at home so I could legit program (they didn’t have interviews like Microsoft or Google back when I was starting off). Soon after I moved to Silicon Valley and it’s been pretty good ever since. I’m mostly retired now after 25 years and the pandemic was the thing that convinced me into retirement.