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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am starting to realize the giants (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison) never even finished college. And the news is full of young people doing important work even though they are self-taught or learned at home. So, if one does not HAVE to go to college to be a software engineer then is it fair to call it a journeyman trade? To be clear you can't practice law, or be a civil engineer, or medical doctor, or a certified public accountant, etc. without earning a college degree and being licensed. That is not the case with all these software engineer jobs is it? I know there are certifications out there but they are not regulated by the government like law and medicine. And I'm not talking about actual computer science where they invent quantum machines and stuff. I'm talking about "software engineering" or however else it is called. [/quote]

Actually, the vast majority of white collar jobs have no licensing requirements.

You selected professions that either (i) have a large number working in the profession dealing with individual consumers such as lawyers and CPAs or (ii) there are literally lives at risk for mistakes with medical or civil engineers.

There are actually many accountants that are not CPAs…your job prospects are limited but you only have to pass the CPA test to call yourself a CPA.[/quote]

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