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.