&gt;&gt;&gt; One of the points of a degree was that you could skip a lot of that.<p>I was told the same thing but was warned you exchange paying one set of dues for another in the corporate world. I stayed away from corporate gigs for years because of this. In reality, it wasn&#x27;t <i>dues</i> per se, it just navigating all the corporate politics I never had to deal with in smaller companies.