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“I think people always worry about, ‘will I be able to get a job if I learn outside of school, if I don’t have a degree.’ And all the stories that I collected show that people have every opportunity to find work without having a degree,” says Stark. “So I think five years from now, given the economic situation we’re in, employers are going to have to respect people who have learned outside of school and their credentials are their experience.”
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