Im not being elitist atall I`m really just pointing out that you don`t need a degree to be an editor.

Yes you can`t be taught certain things, but you sure can learn of other editors, how they make things work, reasons why doing a split audio edit of 4 frames makes the big difference to a straight cut, know what I mean?
Then theirs dealing with clients, working fast and being creative, their is alot to concider, the stress and the fun. You can learn this by becoming a runner, or you can think you know it, like a million other people on their home systems refusing to be a dog body expecting to go straight in to the industry. It just won`t happen that way, you will find that a large % of proffessional editors used to be dogs bodies.
Or you could be a wedding video cutter!
Good luck