Experience vs Education Qualification

[HarryW]

It might not, no, but then not doing a degree might put you at a disadvantage. Nothing is certain when it comes to employment.

If you don't want to do a degree then fine, don't, I think that's a perfectly valid decision if you feel it won't benefit you. I (and many others), however, feel that I want to learn about a diverse range of subjects to a relatively high academic level. If you know exactly what you want to do with your career and you can get into it already then fine, good for you. Personally, I am not copletely 100% sure whether what I think I want to do is right for me, and doing this degree not only allows me to learn a lot about lots of different things, it also lets me have a taste of many different areas. I know I want to be a programmer, that much I had more or less decided when I left school, but what kind of programming do I want to do? There are many different areas I could go into, and I am thinking about it all the time.

If you don't want to do a degree then don't. I do, and so do lots of others, for very valid reasons, so don't try to tell me it's pointless.