I'm doing okay working as a developer here in Australia without even a high school certificate. Granted I'm working in enterprise, so I'm not exactly doing the sexiest stuff on the planet. But the money's good, and I love the work. I learned to code a couple of years ago, starting with PHP then Python, and, after putting together a few websites for my team, I managed to transition from a Operations role to an Engineering role, developing a few in house monitoring products.

Good luck.