Is liberal education a stigma?

Question

IT education

I have a higher education in advertising (I was engaged in SEO), and I didn’t even take my diploma, because I understand that it is like garbage.
For more than six months I have been learning one of the languages ​​​​(5 hours a day) and at the same time I am finishing the school curriculum in mathematics in Khan.

Last week I started to have a strong, literally animal fear that no one would need me without a technical education. That a person who has a technical education (not even in computer science, but in general some kind of leftist) will have a great advantage. And they won't even consider me.

Is it true?

Answer 1

For more than six months I have been learning one of the languages ​​​​(5 hours a day) and at the same time I am finishing the school curriculum in mathematics in Khan.

It is commendable

Last week I started to have a strong, literally animal fear that no one would need me without a technical education. That a person who has a technical education (not even in computer science, but in general some kind of leftist) will have a great advantage. And they won't even consider me.

It looks like the germ of the impostor syndrome :) You are doing everything right, there is nothing to be afraid of.
I have never seen a candidate rejected at an interview just because of the "wrong" education.

Answer 2

No, I have a law degree)
It will be more difficult, but no problem. The main thing is experience and skills.
Of course, having a technical background is an advantage. You do not need to spend additional years to master the basic technical skills, understand the basics of programming, algorithms and other important concepts.
On the other hand, in my current job, humanitarian skills are also highly valued. Teamwork, people and project management, etc.

Answer 3

Separation of humanitarian and technical disciplines is ridiculous. If a humanitarian diploma is not just a piece of paper, but backed up by education, then this is an advantage.

Answer 4

By profession a communications engineer (no relation to IT, despite the digitalization of communications), received more than 10 years ago. In the field, there are a lot of acquaintances with different specialties - psychologists, lawyers, etc. What matters is what's in your head, not on paper.

Answer 5

If you want to be in IT, then the main thing is skills. It doesn't matter what education. But still take the diploma, in fact, without a diploma in your hands - this is an unfinished higher education)

Answer 6

Last week I started to have a strong, literally animal fear that no one would need me without a technical education. And they won't even consider me.

This is nonsense, calm down.
Nobody needs you with a technical education either.
It makes sense to consider you only if you have something to show. Skills, experience.
A piece of paper stating that you have been enrolled in a university for five years in any specialty is so-so if you have nothing to show besides it.

Answer 7

Well, for starters, I'll do what everyone loves to do - compare you and me. (I don't really like you, I hope you don't mind)

then no one will need me

Fuck it, I've been living with this for 10 years now.

because I understand that he is like garbage.

I have the same one lying around, only my university is technical and one of the most difficult (how they think about it, I don’t know how it really is). Doesn't save in general.

not even in computer science

I have a computer science - no one cares at all.

And they won't even consider me

I was even considered a cook from a remote village (well, there was actually a village there), so everything is fine. From cook to aspneter the easiest in a year.
I, too, have not completed my postgraduate studies and I constantly think, "maybe it is necessary, or maybe it is necessary ... time is running out." The main thing is not to worry, but if it’s completely scary, just finish the apprenticeship.
But in fact - there has never been such a thing that someone was not hired because the diploma is not the same ... basically they don’t even look at it.

Answer 8

There is no such thing as talent, predisposition, inclination - a person is a trainable being. "Talent" is whether I can master something, but about - how quickly I will do it - that's all - because the brain / consciousness / upbringing - everyone is different and, accordingly - starting input / inclinations - too. birth - we don’t know how to do anything at all - even to keep saliva in our mouths, and nothing - - we learn - just like reading and writing (do you remember that you didn’t know how to do that either?)). So, learn with confidence! Just do not confuse study and education (may philologists forgive me for the possible misuse of words / in the wrong context) - study is the acquisition of a real skill - making you an independent unit, education is a formal bureaucratic (not in a bad sense of the word) confirmation, that you are minimally fit (not always so - there are very talented people without it) - but nothing more. Not a single piece of paper will confirm a real skill (sometimes it is needed to appease especially picky employers who lack these real skills, but this seems to be rare).