I'm saying you stand next to no chance at all of amassing experience, without certs and or degree to get you a foot in the door, in any area of IT.

The training and learning you should have to undergo to get the paper, valuable.
The people who do it and then learn to apply it, valuable.

The bit of paper morons confuse with the above two assets, if they made it softer and thinner, at least you wouldn't have to be really deperate before you wiped your arse with it...