I have no university degree. But I had a damned good career as a "blue collar" technician and ended up in charge of the maintenance, construction and technology deparents of an entire, seven nation zone. I simultaneously became the sales manager for the entire zone.
I earned "well" - putting me firmly in the highest tax bracket.
I have strong views on literature, art and culture, and an abiding interest in other people's cultures, with multi cultural and multi ethnical friends.
But not one degree. Hence, I disagree.

@LiterateHiker You commented: "People with a college degree are more intelligent and interested in literature, art and different cultures. Most guys with just a high school diploma are boring. They drone on about drinking, hunting and fishing."

Wasn't it you who just said "quit generalizing"?

What abouut the folkss who've been to collages, are edumcated and still belieive in gods and fairee tales? I can't figger that out (Exkuse my speling, I usuallee only talk huntin' and fishin'

@twill Thatz a gud kwestyon. I have no anser

Repeat after me. It's just a joke!

@Barnie2years Or irony, or hyperbole, or stupidity

I'm a decent welder and am forced to work at a convience store. The local carpenter only answers his phone at gun point.

I can weld, both electric and gas. I can plumb. I'm a lousy carpenter, though if pushed I can do it. Trouble is, as I rose up through the company ranks I spent less and less time on the jobs I love, and more and more time in organising and planning the work of others.

@Petter Such is the price of success. Talking to the owner of my local Honda shop, who never had time to ride anymore. Which is what got him interest in running the business in the first place.

I might want my nose attached to my elbow!

@PondartIncbendog
Sir, you can have your chin attached to your knee. That's completely up to you.

How I agree. There's no point in being able to identify a screwdiver if you don't know how to use it.

In the construction industry, they're fed up with people who have operated desks. They want people that know what dirt looks like.

At a Seattle suburb very small high tech company in the 80s we had a rule -- every employee must have a technical degree -- even sales and (somewhat coincidentally I admit) clerical staff.
It simplified things a lot especially when sales people were trying to explain the working of our products to Intel, Hewlett Packard, Applied Materials or some university researcher.

Philosophy degrees of course can teach you how to think academically. But they badly lack practical knowledge of which switch turns the lights on.

@RichCC I am one of those Philosophy degree people. I have met many people who have these degrees and make lots of money. I have also met people with degrees and they get fired from Starbucks. Hands-on is the way to go but having the degree placed me higher in the work pool than many others. It is nice to have a fallback position. I now help build high-end homes and all the stuff that goes into them, I make good money and it is hard to find anyone with the skills to work with their hands.

@dalefvictor
It's not a perfect attitude of course. Some technical people can amazingly dense. I remember one University of Chicago PHD professor who twice sent in his system back for repair. It turned out that the system had a 9-pin connector cable and he 'knew' all about those. He decided ours was upside down so he got out a pair of pliers and 'fixed' it. Then he was surprised and disappointed that things wouldn't work.

We had one short-term sales guy who was a former Boeing engineer. A couple of years later I happened to meet a Boeing manager who knew him and he was amazed we would hire the guy. I told him that the guy for us worked sales rather than engineering and the answer was -- 'Good. He's better off'.

As we grew we had to become more flexible and professional in our practices. Ha, ha.