Kelsey Hightower

Bill Gates drops out of college.

These people are not necessarily glorifying the degree anymore.

It's all about the skill.

Now, unfortunately for me, I didn't know anyone that was a programmer.

I didn't know anyone that was like a system administrator because at that time,

All the systems like Sun Microsystems or IBM Mainframe, those are still the things that are in the enterprise.

So when I look at the job openings, I'm seeing a bunch of skills that I don't even know how to acquire.

And so instead of going to college, you know, I'm still doing fast food, delivering pizzas at this time at Pizza Hut.

And I remember going to a bookstore and they had the A-plus certification guide.

And I looked in some of the job postings and said, hey, you need to be A-plus certified.

Take this support role or whatever it was.

And I was like, you know what?

That doesn't require college.

The book is only $35.

And I remember buying the book and it is an official certification process.

It looks like it was part of the job market.

And so I remember buying that book and reading it cover to cover over and over again and

And you're learning all the fundamentals, right?

You're learning about, you know, how motherboards and how memory and all these things work.

And there's an OS component.