Mostly, degrees get in the way.  They set the financial bar too high for
    small companies.

Well, that's pretty much IT in a nutshell.  At a small company, a degree
isn't so important (but the flip side of this implication is that the lack
will be used to offer you a lower salary :-)  At a large company, a degree
is something the HR department will use to weed out "inappropriate" resumes
before any hiring engineering manager ever sees them.

BillW

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