• Doubletwist@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Almost every job I’ve had in the past 30 years ‘required’ a degree but I never had any problem getting hired without any degree.

    • foofiepie@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Same.

      The hardest one to land was the first ‘proper’ job - and that was a technical interview in a self-taught discipline I’d been freelancing in for a few years at that point. Every subsequent role had a degree (or post-grad) as essential. I have zero academic qualifications for the job I’ve been doing for the last 20 or so years.