I see. I'm glad you've done it. Congratulations! Now I badly want to do it, too. :) Sometimes, I see people talking self-taught programmers down because of their lack of formal training. Have you experienced that earlier?
But that was one of the motivators. Just having someone like that made me wake up one day and think “I’m never going to treat someone like that in this industry and I sure as heck am not going to give anyone else the reason to do it to me again.”
There are teams out there that don’t care as long as your a good team member. But sometimes you meet that one person that has a giant chip on their shoulder.