I think you need to provide proof of As you progress in your career, you'll be worse off -- because logic says otherwise. In 10 years (as the OP progresses in

I think you need to provide proof of As you progress in your career, you'll be worse off -- because logic says otherwise. In 10 years (as the OP progresses in their career) the tech they would have learned about in school will be obsolete. If they haven't continued to learn, THEN they'll be worse off -- but that has nothing to do with credentials or what they learned in school. I've been on the hiring side of the interview process many times. As a software developer progresses in their career they need to think about software architecture and mentoring more than anything else -- things that schools just don't teach well at all. I'm never looking at the (school) credentials of a senior software developer. I'm always looking at what they've done with their career, and how they handle the fundamentals in an interview.