Feelancing is your only hope? Take a look at the fine print of IT/programming jobs ads: Master Degree in Computer Science blah blah blah... or equivalent expe

Feelancing is your only hope? Take a look at the fine print of IT/programming jobs ads: Master Degree in Computer Science blah blah blah... or equivalent experience. If you translate 'equivalent experience' into it's true meaning, it reads: you are able to do the work. Companies know as much as anyone that it's a crap shoot whether an engineer with a degree will do any better than one without. The owner of the near 30 person company I work at, a very capable and respected programmer himself, dropped out of high school, and does millions of dollars in business. As far as your age? That makes no difference whatsoever these days.