First of all, where are you located? In some countries education is cheap or free. In others, you will end up college owing a lot of money to the bank. Is it worth it?
Also, do you consider yourself a traveller? A degree will open the doors straight away to a Visa in most of the countries that are worth visiting. You can usually get a Visa without degree, but usually they ask for 10 years experience instead.
As for progressing in your career, it depends. Some companies will just throw your CV if they don't see a degree on it. Those are the kinds of companies where HR, and not team members are in charge of recruiting. But those companies are probably not the kind of companies you want to work for.
The only problem of not having a degree is that there's quite a lot of knowledge that you will have to aquire by yourself, but it's all there in books and in the Internet.
By the way:
I just wonder IT is a professional industry.
Programing is a craft that takes decades to master. Most of us are writers of code, not scientists.
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I would say that it depends.
First of all, where are you located? In some countries education is cheap or free. In others, you will end up college owing a lot of money to the bank. Is it worth it?
Also, do you consider yourself a traveller? A degree will open the doors straight away to a Visa in most of the countries that are worth visiting. You can usually get a Visa without degree, but usually they ask for 10 years experience instead.
As for progressing in your career, it depends. Some companies will just throw your CV if they don't see a degree on it. Those are the kinds of companies where HR, and not team members are in charge of recruiting. But those companies are probably not the kind of companies you want to work for.
The only problem of not having a degree is that there's quite a lot of knowledge that you will have to aquire by yourself, but it's all there in books and in the Internet.
By the way:
Programing is a craft that takes decades to master. Most of us are writers of code, not scientists.