>If I had my choice between someone with an unrelated degree and someone with a background in CS to hire, but without a degree. I'd chose the latter.

I guess that would make me a hybrid. My degree is Chemical Engineering with heavy course work in CS as well. Of course that was in the days before PCs but just after punch cards. I was fortunate that Texas A&M had just started letting us use terminals the year I started taking the courses. I had courses in Fortran and Basic. I kind of figured I had some talent for programming while watching my wife-to-be sit at a terminal trying to hammer out a cobol program and telling her every mistake she was making along the way. While she was grateful, she still became most annoyed.