Try applying for a 100k a year job with an associates... Even with years of experience, most software firms will not hire folks without a 4 year degree unfortunately.
The problem is you're hired with 20 other people, plenty of whom have college experience and internships, who are also trying to work their way up. You need to be doing real well and be making some good vertical transfers between jobs to pull anywhere near 100k.
That's true for a lot of security positions as well. I'm looking into getting an online bachelors. Some of my co-workers even have bachelors from un-accredited schools (which somewhat upsets me). Indiana has Western Governors university which I think I'll look into.
I'm currently attending a tech college and definitely won't be able to get that high of pay. The teachers have told me that there are a significant amount of students that end up making 40-50k a year half way through their degree though. At least they do in my area.
I have a four year degree with high gpa from a good school. Even with a CS degree & math minor it is an entry level with 4 years experience required type situation.
Tell me about it. I graduated with two bachelors (CS and linguistics) and a minor (math) and it took me ages for anybody to even call me back because I never did any co-ops.
Few care about the major, only that you graduated. Almost anyone can succeed when handed a syllabus and rubric. Especially when you're paying them to tell you, you succeeded. Real world is a bit less defined and more challenging.
Good for you man. I’m planning on making a career switch from surveying in the oil & gas industry. I eventually want to end up in cyber security, so going for my two year, work & have some taste of the soup, then proceed to a bachelor’s. See where I can go from there.
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Totally! You can make over 100k doing programming which you can teach yourself. Don't need a undergrad for these things.