"in this country nobody cares about your qualifications it's different in other countries here once you get your first job your degree goes to the bottom of your resume no one cares sorry but it's just it's just the way it is no one cares it's it's it's what you can do right it's what you can do for them"
You're right it is "what you can do for them".
You're wrong "nobody cares about your qualifications".
Why? Because as an interviewer for deeply technical jobs I know
- usually this company's job requires significantly different technical experience to your current job. Hence your current job is a very imperfect guide as to how you will perform in my company
- the quality - or lack of quality - of an engineering degree is a strong indicator of what you can/cannot be expected to manage in my company now and in the future
In addition, I was using the stuff I learned at university for most of my career.
The fundamentals last a lifetime; one specific tool's details are useful for at most 5 years.
Having said that, towards the end of my career, I became heavily software oriented - and appalled at how few fundamentals the typical employee knew. You know, little things like finite state machines ("aren't they part of a compiler"), the Byzantine Generals problem ("oh, the framework guarantees distributed transactions ACID properties"), Partial Ordering ("oh, this distributed system has the same time everywhere").
TL;DR...
To get 10 years technical experience and growth, then a good degree is invaluable.
OTOH, for one years technical experience repeated 10 times, you needn't worry about the degree.
Too much software avoids engineering, and relies on crossed-fingers plus <sing-song voice> "la-la-la-la-lah".
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