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by drewbie (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2004 at 04:40 UTC
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As we're moving farther and farther from the dot-com boom, my
lack of a degree is really starting to come back and haunt me. I
left school to be part of the "internet revolution" because I
saw something facinating being built which I felt had great
potential. Thus my first job as a HTML monkey, which quickly
lead into my first programming forays - the humble formmail
script and soon thereafter basic database-driven applications w/
oraperl (perl 4 pre-DBI). This was 1996 and I knew I was onto
something big and exciting.  As I continued working and building
my skills, my lack of formal schooling didn't matter. Times were
good and jobs were plentiful. I could easily demonstrate my
skills and prove I could do the job even though I had no degree.
However, that's not the case