Chapter FiveCollege Is Not the Answer: Learn the Industry in 4 Months, Not 4 Years
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
Introduction
If you knew that you wanted to break into IT, would you spend 4 years in college or make it happen in less than 4 months? I think the answer is obvious. Like many others, I also thought that a college degree was essential for landing high-paying IT job offers. However, after getting my dream job without a college degree, I realized that the “higher education” system is completely broken. Why pay huge sums of money to be taught in ways that lack critical thinking and not be given the truly useful training and industry secrets to be a high-performing IT professional?
Unless you want to become a doctor, a lawyer, or the like, going to college is the biggest lie that we’ve been told, but with IT engineering, you can learn through hands-on practical skills training and mentorship, as you’ll see in this book. That’s why I’m going to give you the nine steps to demand six-figure job offers from top Fortune 500 companies. We’re going to talk about multiple things that make a college degree irrelevant, making you more competent and more qualified than any college graduate!
After achieving the American Dream and going from Zero to Engineer without college, I realized I had a bigger problem to solve and a bigger impact to make. ...
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