Ok Here is the scoop Big Companies want degrees / fresh grads so they can mold them. If you have a degree and little experience, you can be bossed around, serve overtime, and get owned because you simply don't know any better rookie. (you did it for 4+ years and paid for it) Your just happy to be in big boy world now. Plus everyone else has a degree so you can sit around and chat about the college days and be in "the club". A degree says (to me anyway) that you can put up with studying, tests, homework. It says that you can go along with "the program". Big companies like that because that's what they do with their employees, they enact them into "the program". You are a number, employee B0953430 in the alpha quadrant. Now report to your manager! Smaller Companies do not really give a flying crud muffin about a degree. They are trying to grow and they need someone who knows what the hell they are doing. You know who knows what they hell they are doing? People who have done it before, and that comes with experience. They know how to handle the boat because they have driven it before. They understand relationships, work environments, office politics, tools, and client relationships. Plus they don't act and sound like a rookie which makes clients/managers feel uncomfortable. Advice to you: Graduate and get an entry level job, this is the start of your career. The piece of paper is nice to have in your pocket! Good luck. People hire people they like. Learn to sell yourself. Say to them, I am smart, energetic, and ready to be here for the team. Also, dress nicely.

God they are so inept and currupt What about ICANN?