I got a $70k tech certification job without a degree

This is when I realized that you don't need a degree to get a well-paying IT job. If I can do it, so can you!

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[kanamenoname]

Meanwhile me with a degree not getting 1 call back 💀

[MamiTT]

My ex told me that a long time ago. Just apply any way. You’re already in the “no” because you haven’t applied, so what could it hurt? And that’s how I became a project manager for a construction company… was once of the best jobs I’ve ever had!

[chseylver]

I've learned after being out of school for like a decade; It's not about your credentials. It's about who can pull some strings for you to get in the door.

[chrisleaf]

I am appalled at how many companies require a bachelor degree just to sit in an office and answer the phone.

[KookinHaole]

I once applied for a job claiming to have a degree. during my 2nd interview, they asked me to send a diploma. I told them since I had completed it online during covid I never got to walk the stage.... They told me just to send the diploma to them after receiving it in the mail. That never happened. I worked for that company for 6 months and saw the absolute incompetence of others. Left. I did the job better than those who had the degree...

[nashtylove]

I have a BS in Mechanical engineering could not get hired anywhere but then I asked around my friend pulled me in to a good company. It's not what you know it's who you know.

[liesareparadox]

I am a developer. I make over $100k/year. I have no degree, no certifications, lot’s of experience. Degrees are useful but don’t take the place of experience. If you are willing to teach yourself and show what you can do then you will thrive.

[RedCupMafia]

Shout out to all my no degree finessors🤝🏾

She knew somebody who gave her the inside track.

[KrystalynT]

I got super lucky and was able to somehow get hired on for a position that requires a bachelors degree without even having a high school diploma. All I had was a stack of certifications I earned during Covid when I started. I’m going on my third year with the company and have since earned my high school diploma and now I’m currently working on my associates degree and planning to complete a bachelors after. I didn’t have to go back to school I chose to for my own personal fulfillment. It’s definitely possible to get a corporate job without a degree I’m living proof.

[seitanictendencies]

I spent 6 years active duty Navy for Cyber, after separation I immediately landed $100k/yr at my first job with no degree. 1 company change and an additional job change later (5 years since separation) and I'm making $170k as a Cybersecurity Engineer, still no degree. And I'm working from home 100%.

[bg]

I do not have any degrees or certificates to my name, I don't even have a high school diploma, I dropped out my junior year and got my GED. But I managed to get into a high skill technician position and I make 6 figures now.

You don't need college degrees to make good money. If you like to work with your hands and like machines, go be a technician. It's looked down on and younger people don't want to be a technician, which creates a shortage of skilled techs, but things still need to be fixed so the demand has gone up for these skills and so has the pay.

[siantelove]

My husband is an HR manager and I've seen him go through resumes, they don't care about your degree as much anymore: experience, certifications and can you perform are "key"

[xsyvkjb]

Lie on the resume, lie about your identity, lie about your years of experience. Theres two sides of every coin and this is the one that companies chose. They did this with malicious intent, therefore they will get a response with malicious intent.

[investertiger]

What happens is that they know its a good paying job with benefits and probably easy to do so they try to pass it to friends or family first meanwhile they put up an ad asking for outragious credentials and experience they know that nobody can fill.

[hannahviolet]

yea it's great until AI start automatically denying your application because you don't have a bachelors

[OskieOmega]

Me too I’m a network engineer who self studied and proved I can do the work in front of them my job required a bachelors never came
Up I did the skills and technical interview and got an offer 15 mins after the interview

[unitedteststrips]

I don't have an IT degree either. I do freelance IT support work, I randomly thought to put together my resume and posted on all the job boards. A week and a half later I had an offer letter for a company called Baycom. Don't let you not having a degree stop you.

[danpierce]

I have 3 trade liscences a bachelors in business admin. Applied to over 3000 places landed 3 interviews and one of the interviews wasnt even somthing i applied for or was applicable to my background. Somthing isnt adding up and im considering getting a masters in engineering or going for my doctorate so i am someone you LITTERALLY CANNOT TURN AWAY. I just got fired from a construction job i had no experience in and im seriously considering just offing myself because im not going to tolerate living a life where im never happy and only hopeful. Im tired of feeling like im not worth anything while i see the potential to change the world as a whole within myself. Im tired of life falling so short of my expectations.

[lyssabloom]

A. Technician does a huge important part so that’s not something to look down on in fact anybody looking down on somebody for the kind of work they do need to check themselves!