Anecdotally, the only people that have been laid off/fired in IT at my current $DAY_JOB are people with degrees. I think the fundamental issue is perception ma

Anecdotally, the only people that have been laid off/fired in IT at my current $DAY_JOB are people with degrees. I think the fundamental issue is perception matters. The perception of having a degree matters to some people. To some people, its about performance metric X instead, etc.