{"id":1514,"date":"2010-01-21T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2010-01-21T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:16:52","slug":"what-makes-you-qualified-to-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/1514","title":{"rendered":"What makes you qualified to do this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve talked to and shown various people around here the work we&#8217;re doing, a frequently asked question is \u201cWhat makes you qualified to do this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. Interesting question. I sometimes explain that Brad used to do construction. And while that has been very helpful in some areas, the reality is that much of what we&#8217;re doing is new to both of us.<\/p>\n<p>So the answer is that we are bold and think we can do it.<\/p>\n<p>My general feeling is that traditional education in many professions is less valuable than good common sense and hard work. To me, this is no different. We do a lot of research and try to think things out well in advance, but at some point you just plunge ahead and try it. If it doesn&#8217;t work, you try something else. If you work hard and smart, things generally work out.<\/p>\n<p>A couple people have agreed with this saying that really anyone could build a house; you just need to want to do it and then to do the work. Both people who shared this perspective with us were professional contractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve talked to and shown various people around here the work we&#8217;re doing, a frequently asked question is \u201cWhat makes you qualified to do this?\u201d Hmmm. Interesting question. I sometimes explain that Brad used to do construction. And while that has been very helpful in some areas, the reality is that much of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,71],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-construction","tag-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}