I'm in the same boat as ShotoJuko. I've been in IT since 1991, all self-taught. I failed miserably out of the University of Michigan back in the late '80s and went to a couple of Community Colleges after that. School wasn't for me whatsoever. Back in 1990, I was working as a teller at a bank for $6.83/hour and talked my way on to the Help Desk a year later for $18,600/year.

17 years later, after working my way up the food chain, I'm Vice President of Engineering and make 6 figures (this is not to brag, but to add perspective and to also answer the OP's questions). All without a college degree. Hard work (and a little luck) got me to where I am now.

A college degree at this point will not net me a new position or more pay. It is now a personal quest to finish something I started 20 years ago.

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