No Bachelor's Degree yet

[urobjective]

Do you think not having a degree has affected your job prospects?

[jku]

I ended up getting a MASTERS degree - but in my experience, a degree depends VERY much on the type of field you're going into.
Med, Law, Science - all require professional degrees - but if you want to work in the liberal arts/media (which was the #1 ranked field on interest on this site), a degree is a far second to a strong work ethic, and strong interest in the field.

Like many answers in life, it "all depends," but a college degree for the most part nowadays is done for YOURSELF. It is by NO means a ticket to the middle class, as it was in previous generations. Some people graduate from college and feel a sense of entitlement, but from my private conversations with people in the working world, they seem to look at college grads (from non-Ivy Universities) as drugged out party people who spend all their time downloading music and trying to get laid - and see learning and intellectual curiosity as a burden.
If you're like this, and have a hard time finding a job, change. Now.

[seren1411]

I still don't know for sure - I've done a bachelor's degree, a masters degree and am currently doing a PhD (I started out wanting to work in academia, for which I do need this level of qualification, but I'm not so certain about this any more).
Naturally in some respects it depends on the relevance of degree subject to long-term career plans. But while we might have been brought up to believe that having a degree is a good and desirable thing as far as the job market is concerned, especially for access to more lucrative employment, this (over here at least) is ceasing to be strictly true. As the number of people qualifying with degrees has risen, the availability of and remuneration attached to graduate jobs has declined.
A number of my friends with degrees, and particularly those with qualifications in non-career specific subjects, have experienced difficulty in obtaining graduate employment. Some of them have even been unable to obtain positions which don't require degrees because potential employers view them as being overqualified or unlikely to remain in the job.