KittenKoder
Senior Member
Hell, I'm a high school dropout. What I learned without schooling:
Programming computers in assembly (6 months to learn), C (two years to learn), and Java (3 months to learn). Web development (on going process that never ends). Network engineering (on going again). Celestial mechanics. Chaos theory. Theological studies including christian, ancient, and modern-pagan religions (though so I could figure out which was right for me it still counts). Sewing and knitting (I was too young to remember how long that took). Survival skills (taught by my dad). Electronic design, theory, application, and even some mechanical engineering (we know that's on going). .... and the list goes on and on. My specialty (and current career) network engineering, though I want to go back to being a chef someday.
So why isn't every high-school dropout a master programmer? You're the exception that proves the rule.
They have other very useful skills, you may as well ask why every college grad isn't a computer programmer.
Just because someone decided that only "schooled" people are useful doesn't mean they were right. Where do you think all the stuff you learn in school came from in the first place? Us "idiot dropouts", that's who. As a matter of fact when I was in high school we had a computer lab, with Apple IIes, and a few 286es, that's it. Computers were thought of as nothing but fancy toys or science tools, nothing more. I started learning about them before it was "in" and most computer programmers who taught the teachers in colleges are high school dropouts. AOL, Microsucks, even Apple use to hire hackers, they didn't care about education they were built on people who didn't like school. Windoze didn't use to get fucked up so much until they started only hiring college morons. I have to clean up networks after "higher" educated morons mess with them all the time, as a matter of fact that's what my primary job is, cleaning up their mistakes, which is slowly changing though as they are getting tired of having to get it fixed they are starting to call me first and completely ignoring the contracts (not even renewing those "professional" contracts when they run out). They ask me to interview their new hires for tech when I tell them I won't do more than part time. Go figure, me, a high school dropout, doing tech better than those who "studied" for it (between beers and fucks).
Yes, I'm an old school tech, we don't exist in colleges and universities anymore because we get hired for jobs before we are even out of high school.