answer:Hi, and welcome to Fluther. I think you have two basic choices, and they don’t have to be exclusive: 1. You could take courses to complete your college degree. I understand that this would probably entail a lot more work load than you want to handle right now, and might cause more loss of time with your family. But if you’re committed to banking, then you really need to fit the mold, I think. Banking (like the military, as you pointed out) is pretty well regimented and “by the numbers”. So if you want to advance in management there, then the paper is important. 2. You could—and probably should—test the waters outside of banking. Some small business owner somewhere (doing who knows what—with your skill set it hardly matters what they do or produce—is dying for a person with your kinds of abilities and talents, and is willing to pay for that, and will give you all of the responsibility you can handle—and pretty much whatever pay you demand. Their policy is, “We need results; what can you do for me?” When you show them, then the door is opened wide, degree or not. And you could do both of those things: get the degree and get out of banking.