Stfrank,
Depending on the country you are in. Regardless, if no degree is what you feel is the issue, start making the right friends and shaking the right hands and keep building experience. A booksmart person will always be inferior to an equally intelligent person with street smarts.
You just have to understand the time you spend in college going to class, commuting, working to afford school/living, homework, studying and so on NOW needs to replaced with experience and educating yourself in your specific interests. Coming from someone with a degree or two and with large circles of people with degrees, I can say that nothing is to be gained these days in an institution that you cant do yourself in half the time. Even the appealing idea of fraternities is churning out nothing but BRODUDES these days that end up crashing and burning their own personal lives.
We are all sold on the idea of college and obtaining degrees since we started grade school. In favor of having a school agenda, I could see how influencing kids to take their own path would be a disaster for school and parents who have also been brainwashed by this major education system. At the end of the day, you have to understand schools are for the majority, there to train you to be an employee, not an employer!
Trust me, you educate yourself well enough you will eventually notice the reason why people are so attracted to an educated person originally, its up to you to emulate that aura that an educated person gives off with your own personal custom twist of self-education and you have a true key to success. Do you really need to know the history of European Folklore? How about Community Health? If you consider yourself unique, you will realize these are all fluff that have no depth to it.
Good luck and take it as it comes, but do it with your head screwed on!
