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Sometimes we get a little over-proud of our degrees.
I also dropped out of college with one quarter left to go to take a TV director position at a station where I had worked over a couple of summers. It was a real coup to get the job with as little "real" experience as I had.
Of four of us directors, one had a Masters, two had Bachelors degrees -- and me.
Within six months, I was directing the 6:00 and 11:00 PM News which were the two most important programs on the station. I didn't have a degree, but was a better director.
By the time I finished my BSC some twenty years later I was running the Production Department at a top 20 market NBC Owned and Operated TV station, Freelance directing NFL Football for NBC Sports and teaching a class in sports production at The University of Colorado at Boulder.
Actually, I wouldn't have bothered finishing if it hadn't felt like a sentence in my life that didn't have a period at the end.
College degrees are very important and I highly recommend them -- but they don't necessarily make you a better employee.
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