After 20 years of doing this if I could do it all over again I would get a CS degree and an engineering masters. I am a self taught developer with unrelated bac

After 20 years of doing this if I could do it all over again I would get a CS degree and an engineering masters. I am a self taught developer with unrelated bachelors. My experience doing this I have learned there is only thing that influences career fulfillment: barrier of entry. You can make money anywhere in software as dependent upon the success of your employer regardless of level, skill, or competence. To be happy doing the work, however, requires operating at the appropriate level of challenge. If you are the smartest guy in the room everyone around will be full of excuses and selfish retardation. If you are in over your head you will be the one inventing improper excuses doing selfish things. So, always strive for the most exclusive and challenging job you can get.