This is true of me as well.
I wouldn’t make it past the résumé screen if I were starting my career today.
Luckily when I started it was fairly easy to get a job in IT. Now it’s not so easy and there is no career path to move up – most of the lower-level jobs are being de-professionalized or eliminated.
Strange to make a society that cares more about credentials than actually being good at something.
But that is pretty standard for oligarchic societies, which is what we pretty much are now.