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You're not adding anything to the conversation. If you had said, "Yea I don't have a college degree and I've taught myself six different programming languages a
by rjett 17y ago
You're not adding anything to the conversation. If you had said, "Yea I don't have a college degree and I've taught myself six different programming languages and I'm working on x, y and z right now," that would have been a (marginally) better response to the parent than what you wrote.
- jaxn 17y agoSee, I think there is value in self-identification esp since not having a college degree makes you somewhat of a pariah in some circles. Granted, it would have been better to provide some prove as to why it is notable that I personally do not have a college degree, but being here at HN counts for something. But yeah, I have probably taught myself 6 programming languages (PHP, Ruby, Java, Python, Javascript, Perl, and some software specific programming tools like Lawson Process Flow, TSQL, etc). I have over 10 years of tech / business experience, own 2 retail clothing stores, took statzen.com to TechCrunch50 DemoPit last year, am about to launch http://gpsaAssassins.com http://gpsaAssassins.com, yada yada. I was going to go back and finish my BS, but something better keeps coming along. Now I am at a point where it doesn't seem worth it. So I am thinking I may one day clep out of a much of stuff and go get my MBA. Of course, by the time I have the time to go back to school the MBA probably won't seem worth it either. So, hopefully that adds a little more to the conversation. (Better late than never)