On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:53:22 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I agree that college is one way to become exposed to the "fundamentals",
but it's certainly not the *only* way .. and after college you are on
your own. My comment was about those who think a degree or degrees
makes one more qualified than anyone else and sit on their laurels all
their lives thinking that the degree is what differentiates them from
others. You seem to fit in that category. Don't you have any
associates or friends you respect for their accomplishments, regardless
of the number of degrees they hold (if any) ?

My first question would be latency. How old is that degree and how
much do you actually remember? I know I had a "relearning" curve on
my dBase stuff after a 15 year layoff. If it was something I had not
seen since the Nixon administration, I would pretty much be starting
from zero. I know that if I had to write anything very complex in
S/360 Assembler I would be hitting the books for a while before it
started coming back. I used to keep up with career system programmers
and even answering their questions now and then about system and I/O
macros. I was way ahead of the professor teaching it at Montgomery
College ... according to his students. Most of that was self taught.