I feel you on that, you don't necessarily need to go to a Unversity. I didn't, and I'm clockin' 6-figs.
I did some community college back in the day. But then.. my employer saw that I was talented in picking up understanding coding/debugging/problem-solving.
So the President and his right hand man (which is still my supervisor to this day, even after we got bought up into a larger company) for coding took me under his wing.
Which makes total sense as a business man. Someone he can train up with good coding habits, and get away with (initially) paying them less that standard current market rates in that area that an HR person would use for creating the job listing.
At the time, the idea was my 1st wife would get her schooling out of the way, since making this job role switched bumped up my salary. (bouth young kids making sh!t wages to start with) The idea was later we'd switch places in terms of schooling. Well... later-on, I elected to leave that union. So that never happened. But that is just fine, as I'm doing OK for myself.
My wife did HR stuff forever, and in her 40's went and did the online university thing, (which is a PITA when they give them group projects to do) to get leveled-up in her field, and now she's an HR Director.
RE: raising him right, see below PROUD PAPA MOMENT! :
