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I've never found myself not knowing what I should do, or threatened by a hiring/skills bubble.

When I stopped feeling like I was getting anywhere with front-end I started to take on more back-end projects and sell myself as a full-stack developer.

I've never been in a situation where I've felt "man, I really should have gotten a CS degree": but what do I know; I'm just a web developer.

Maybe we're not talking about web developers?

No advanced engineering skills have been required to make the frontends/backends/architect a system for Fortune 500s and local businesses that I've been involved with. (I'm speaking of things I would have learned in school with CS and math principles had I been able to get past CS 101).

-- college dropout with successful programming career.



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