content: What you see here is pure whiner talk. First of all, pedigreed education is nowhere near mandatory, it gives you a leg up at first, but the more experience you have, the more the importance of education fades. People bitch and moan but they don't realize that wealth doesn't get you a career by itself. If the author wanted a job in tech, he'd sit down, shut up and just start working. You'll eat shit for a couple of years, but eventually the experience starts adding up, connections form and so will your wealth, because if you're worth the money, the company will pay it. source: was poor kid from an eastern european country with only a high school degree, got my first dev job at 19 after powering through months of rejection, ate shit for a while with low salary and high work load to prove myself. 10 years later i'm an architect building a major project from the ground up, rejecting calls from skype and barclays because i don't want to leave until its done and i can add another notch on my CV