> I know a guy with enough college credit for four degrees. It was incredibly difficult for him to get a job as he got older.
There has been a lot of research gone into what makes someone financially successful and the current line of thinking seems to be that soft-skills, like stick-to-itiveness, are the primary factors. Someone who matches the description of your acquaintance doesn't exactly remind me of someone who is has a predisposition for success. Perhaps that has been his failing in the job marketplace and not the lack of a degree at all?
He held an excellent engineering job for twenty nine years while earning well in excess of $100K. Got laid off during the economic downturn. At >50 years of age no doors opened wherever a degree was required. He ended-up going back to school to finish one of the degrees. Regrettably he disappeared while swimming in the ocean and is presumed dead. Rung against the no-degree firewall really did a number on him. Some think he committed suicide. We'll never know.
There has been a lot of research gone into what makes someone financially successful and the current line of thinking seems to be that soft-skills, like stick-to-itiveness, are the primary factors. Someone who matches the description of your acquaintance doesn't exactly remind me of someone who is has a predisposition for success. Perhaps that has been his failing in the job marketplace and not the lack of a degree at all?