Put your iron armor on and come join me on a trip to the Nether.  Of course, by trip – there was this hole, I didn’t see it coming and well – let me not spoil anything for you.  In today’s episode of Mitchcraft I find a nice place to build my portal to the Nether and have a look around.  Looks like we have a pretty nice starting spot there – to say the least.

On today’s episode of Mitchcraft, we are going to take a trip down the second (and much more scary) ravine we’ve run across to see what type of goodies it has in store for us.  Will we find diamonds or skeletons? Time to do a little adventuring.  Remember, to show your support and let me know you want to see more episodes – be sure to subscribe to my channel over on YouTube and leave me a few comments on what you think, what you like or what you want to see more of. 

How important is it to have a degree in something?  Better yet, when it comes to a degree-less person and a person with a degree fighting for the same spot, who should come out on top?  There are definitely winning arguments on both sides, but I think more aspects should come into play.

I remember when I got my first job in the web hosting industry in the early 2000s, and I asked my current boss if I should follow the usual course and try to get certified in this, that and the other.  He told me he had walls of degrees, certifications and the like – but none of it means a thing if you can’t do the work.  So from that point on, I decided I would stay on my self-trained route and it has done me pretty well thus far.

Best Job Qualifications

So when it comes to one person like me without a degree in something or another and somebody with that degree, who would you pick?  I think other key things should come into play with any profession. 

• Experience
• Winning Results

If you can’t show you have both of those traits, degree or no-degree, you don’t deserve the spot. 

Now, there is always an exception to the rule.  For example, I am not going to a doctor without a medical degree, and probably don’t want to be defended by a lawyer without a law degree.  However, even in those situations you want somebody with experience or that can show you winning results of their hard work.

So next time you try to decide who should be getting a certain spot, remember that a self-educated person can be as qualified (if not more) than one who might have a degree.

Let me comment on something Liam Eagle said though:

Mitch seems to think he’s unraveling some sort of conspiracy. But this is hardly a revelation. It ought to be patently obvious to anyone reading the WHIR blogs that we’re posting comments on each other’s entries. We’re certainly not doing it in secret.

Nobody said it was a secret.

The reason I thought it was funny is that the Web Host Industry Review is one of the biggest dogs in the fight. They are the “leaders of the pack” in some people’s eyes. When you look at other Web hosting leaders blog (take Bob Parsons for example) he gets comments all over the place. Why isn’t the WHIR Blog team getting the same reaction? That is what I thought was “odd” and then “funny”.

Just to make it clear yet again, just because I might question or highlight what the WHIR is doing doesn’t mean there is a “negative meaning” behind it. Heck, I even wrote for the WHIR once upon a time (did one article too my whole month there ).

One thing that the WHIR does very well is Web hosting news. I am in no way, shape or form in competition with the WHIR team. They have a bigger budget, a bigger team, and more leverage in the business than a little old Web hosting podcaster like me has. I am only trying to bring attention to what I see.

Now one more comment on what Liam had to say in his own comment:

Hey Mitch. I was going to reply here, but I thought maybe nobody would see it, so I put something up on my blog.

Yes Liam, maybe nobody would have seen it here, but then again – where did WHIR TV go anyways?