Its not my thought, it's fact. And no, not every job requires a degree. SpaceX doesn't and they build rockets... You look at people without a degree as a bum off the street. That's your problem. I do engineering for a living yet I don't have a degree or even a PE stamp. You know what I have? Years of experience and a portfolio to prove I know how to do math. And I do it better than many PEs out there.