Been There Done That..... (Score 1)

I spent the first 10 years of my career leveraging my military training working as a non-degreed engineer for 2 or the largest technical firms in the world. I eventually found myself leading 4 degreed engineers in an R&D lab, all made more money than me and and were able to move in job market which was harder for me since I didn't have the paper. So I went to college and got a BSBA with minor in MIS and I did learn a lot but more than that I refined what I knew and layering the business skills on my technical skills made me more valuable. The article is basically correct though, and there's another aspect. There are very few potential H1 employees that do not possess degrees and that creates market pressure. I suspect the perception of hiring management, is that a degreed "white collar" employee is better than a non-degreed "new collar" employee. My employer is a case in point, we very much promote "new collar" workers in our marketing and technical trainings, but on the other hand I haven't seen one employment opportunity that doesn't require a degree.