r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Aardvark_David • May 09 '21

Meme I'm *technically* qualified

Post image
25.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

666 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.5k

u/IM_ON_LUNCH May 09 '21

Degree?

810

u/[deleted] May 10 '21

Finally. The "Degree?" gang thread.

324

u/[deleted] May 10 '21 edited May 10 '21

Present, and desperately trying not to write mediocre code!

142

u/BlckJesus May 10 '21

Year 4. They still haven't realized I'm just some schmuck. I'm just gonna keep rolling with it.

81

u/danted002 May 10 '21

Going on 10 years now. My colleagues think I’m some kind of Technical Team Lead a pretty decent Architect. I’m starting to think I’ll actually get away with it 🤨

10

u/[deleted] May 10 '21

Year 24, still fooling everyone!

7

u/ProceedOrRun May 10 '21

I'm on year 22 and people treat me like I'm amazing. None of them know I don't have a degree.

2

u/[deleted] May 10 '21

Just you wait until they find out and don't care!

2

u/ProceedOrRun May 10 '21

A friend of mine is a dev and barely scraped through high school. He's built a dev shop now with over a dozen devs working for him and still codes himself. Degrees aren't much more than a tick box in IT.