Timeline for Can someone find a job as a programmer without an education?
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| Mar 6, 2012 at 12:48 | comment | added | Maxood | I think we are talking about programmers here! The names of the people quoted are successful people in their own domains. They were not programmers for sure. | |
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| Apr 15, 2011 at 15:59 | comment | added | Mitch | To say that they 'only had a high-school' diploma is very misleading. Three (Gates, Zuckerberg, Dell) were students at top schools (Harvard, UTA) who -chose- to leave school to do business (I can't find out about Jobs). To call them drop-outs makes it sound like they were screwing around and got kicked out, which is obviously not the case. | |
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| Oct 22, 2010 at 8:00 | comment | added | user2567 | David, I'm one of them. But I agree it's rare, but that exists. | |
| Oct 21, 2010 at 14:25 | comment | added | David Thornley | Also, there's some selection bias here. You've never heard of most people who left college without a diploma to found a software company. | |
| Oct 21, 2010 at 10:39 | comment | added | luis.espinal | Err, I'm sure each of them had a HS degree and completed a substantial amount of college education ;) | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 17:41 | comment | added | user2567 | That's correct. | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 17:22 | comment | added | David Thornley | @Pierre: It's easy to set up a business, if all you want is to set up a business. I registered a business name back in 2002 when I was laid off. The hard part was making more than $2K at it in three years. | |
| Oct 4, 2010 at 18:37 | comment | added | user2567 | It's very hard to start one that sucks too. Try yourself. | |
| Oct 4, 2010 at 18:28 | comment | added | Tim Goodman | @Pierre: I didn't say it was easy to start a successful company. Anyway, my comment was tongue-in-cheek. | |
| Oct 4, 2010 at 18:15 | comment | added | user2567 | @Tim, that's not a correct statement. Creating your own company is a LOT more difficult than finding a job. In fact, being an entrepreneur is so difficult, than most of the user on programmers.stackexchange.org work for another person. It's probably your case Tim. | |
| Oct 4, 2010 at 18:11 | comment | added | Tim Goodman | @gablin: Yes, it takes very little experience to get hired by yourself. | |
| Oct 4, 2010 at 18:09 | comment | added | Muad'Dib | AFIK, these gentlemen DID finish high-school (it was college they dropped out of, after all) | |
| Oct 3, 2010 at 8:48 | comment | added | user2567 | Yes sadlh most people get famous by becoming very rich :) | |
| Oct 2, 2010 at 18:57 | comment | added | gablin | True, but they also started their own companies. | |
| Oct 2, 2010 at 13:58 | history | answered | user2567 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |