Re^2: how hard is it to find a job without a degree?

...It took me 7 years and nearly daily work/practice to get to that point; and part of it was how few Perl-centric devs there are now

Thank you again. Did you have a programming job in the meantime? Apprenticeship? ...?

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Re^3: how hard is it to find a job without a degree? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 25, 2015 at 12:46 UTC
This is a good question because I glossed a lot. I wrote a loooong reply. Too long. So, as the kids say, TL;DR: I'm self-taught at the sacrifice of tons of personal/free time, and then working in jobs where I could apply Perl here and there even though I was not paid to program. I had a background and aptitude for CS and math from childhood so it's not a miracle, :P just a lot of effort. The monastery helped me get out of many bad habits and break out of the Dunning–Kruger stage of my hacking skills. :P	[reply]

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Re^3: how hard is it to find a job without a degree?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 25, 2015 at 12:46 UTC

This is a good question because I glossed a lot.

I wrote a loooong reply. Too long. So, as the kids say, TL;DR: I'm self-taught at the sacrifice of tons of personal/free time, and then working in jobs where I could apply Perl here and there even though I was not paid to program. I had a background and aptitude for CS and math from childhood so it's not a miracle, :P just a lot of effort.

The monastery helped me get out of many bad habits and break out of the Dunning–Kruger stage of my hacking skills. :P

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