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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
How many of y’all have ever worked with someone who never went to college?
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Trust Abajuo
@tabajuo
I have delivered many crucial hydraulic repairs and retrofits on seagoing vessels and ships for IOC’s and maritime companies solely with technicians and teams who never went to college.
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randychai.eth
@rcyh
🙋🏻‍♂️imo, graduating from college merely means that a person has the ability to learn and absorb knowledge in a supervised, guided, and moderately stressful environment. And of course, the niche knowledge acquired through attending the courses, where one should be able to be acquired from the internet today
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craabit
@craabit
I never went to college or university.
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jonwalch
@jonwalch
Yeah I worked a ton of odd jobs when I was younger
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franco
@francos.eth
Staff engineer at my last startup. Super smart and hardworking guy. He did however had this insane urge to always be proving that he was a hardcore engineer and that made him kind of toxic.
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zom
@zom
A disproportionate number of the most capable people I know fall into this category
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Alec Urtu
@alecurtu
A lot that never finished.
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Max Jackson ✨🎩
@mxjxn.eth
Old friend and former coworker is an accomplished software engineer who dropped out of HS and taught himself.
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Corbin Page 👑🎩
@corbin.eth
Quite a few. I think college is generally optional for dev / design folks if they have a body of work I can review instead. Product / BizOps / Marketing I look more for college credentials for an indication of commitment and work ethic. Not perfect signals but they are parameters.
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Ralph Old Dad
@withere
I never went to college
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Sterling Schuyler 🍥
@sterschuyler
🔹 juice shop: I worked in admin office, coworkers in production + retail 🔹govt marketing: I worked as marketer, colleague was a former soldier turned graphic designer 🔹 VC: I worked as copywriter, GP was high school only
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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
Several people that I admire have not attended college.
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
I’m a college dropout. I’ve worked with people who graduated, people who dropped or never went. Higher ed gives some people the env or connections they need to grow into their career, some people are autodidacts or just don’t gel with academia, but I’ve seen zero correlation of either with their capabilities.
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Renjith Nair
@rn
They are usually wicked smart . I usually assume they are an order of magnitude smarter than someone who is at the same place with a degree
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SydneyJason
@sydneyjason
Several of the best engineers I worked with never went to college. Self taught, wicked smart, scrappy thinkers. Taught me as a manager to evaluate the intellect/fit, not the resume…
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MisterMutiny
@mistermutiny
Every job I've had
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Bias 🫧🗿
@bias
I didn’t go for the things I do everyday, nor did I even complete film school.
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Yikes
@yikes
i worked at applebees
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one33seven
@1337
Quite common in 🇨🇭 , as we have "Lehre" whereby people enter jobs from Highschool to learn in the job (+ continuing job specific schooling) rather than going to study. So, yes 😄
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