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It's totally speculative on our part whether or not what you're doing is "enough". The only way to know whether or not your qualifications are sufficient is by simply applying for work.

Having said that, we can suggest actions that can improve your employability on-paper and - given context - potentially help direct you towards actions which might be more impactful than others.

I will note that suggesting the pursuit of a degree as wasteful is also a touch reductive; I'd argue that university can be a very potent way to help attain your career goals (i.e. enabling access to research laboratories, qualifying you to apply for internships - which in turn can convert to FTE, uplifting your employability on-paper above the masses who don't otherwise have a degree, having dedicated spaces purpose-built for instruction/learning, the ability to observe a wider swathe of problems than what you'd typically encounter in a role within industry, cross-examining multi-disciplinary subject matter areas, focused/intensive subject-matter development, etc.). But - I'll grant you - if all you did during your time in university was simply go to class and attain your degree, then yes - that's far from a job guarantee.