I'm skeptical. I was in my 40's before I graduated from a college. Before that, I did some serious electronics with a background from my local community college, have worked production lines, taught myself assembly language when I was engineering my first microprocessor-based design at work, then when I couldn't get re-employed years later, a lot of potential employers simply not believing my resume content because my 'formal education' was lacking, so I went back to school, got my BS in 1999, and my MS in 2006, then continued working on personal projects and learnign new coding languages on my own since now nobody wanted to take a chance on hiring an 'old' man. Their loss.
> I couldn't get re-employed years later, a lot of potential employers simply not believing my resume content because my 'formal education' was lacking..
I am 53 years old. I don't have a college degree. I have never been unemployed and have had good software development jobs all my adult life, including now.
It is possible and likely that your lack of a degree was not the issue.
