As a counterpoint I was in the same position , dropped my course and started teaching myself . I had to work a shitty call centre job for 6 months while spending all my free time at my computer learning programming but then I managed to land my first Junior Developer role . I kept teaching myself and within 4 years , so the time it would have taken me to get a degree , I was a project lead . My career has never suffered due to my lack of a degree . Tertiary education isn ' t for everyone . <| sep |> I wouldn ' t call that knowledge , but nouns don ' t have antonyms . <| sep |> That ' s a tough one . Looks like maybe something from the genus Saturnia but I ' m not sure . I don ' t think there ' s any moth called the Devils Eye Moth