People often discount that university plays the important (to employers) role of validating someone's ability to do difficult things for a long time without failing or quitting, on their own dime. I often think that purpose is more important than the education itself. The main problem people I know who hire people without college degrees have is that they struggle to find people who are reliable. There are reliable people without degrees and unreliable people with degrees, but having a degree seems to be correlated with reliability.
That's what I'm saying. You've got somebody on this side who finished a degree. And this person who says they know a lot of skills, but how do I know they finished anything? Mix it up, degree, certs, internships self-learning, volunteering. All that and you're not only employable, but a great person to start a company. More better cheaper school, not less school.
