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In this blog post, the author shares his personal journey of pursuing his childhood dream of becoming a hacker. He recounts how he was inspired by movies, how he learned various skills in technology, and how he eventually achieved his OSCP certification. However, he also reveals that he realized he had no passion for offensive security, and that he was happier as a programmer and a cloud security engineer. He expresses his relief and excitement for his new path, and invites the readers to follow his progress.<\/p>\nCopilot Summary<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I used to want to be a hacker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to be a hacker, just like in the movies. When I was a child, I saw the movie, Hackers. This was back in 1995, and it changed me, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. For most of my life I didn\u2019t follow through with this though since back in the 90\u2019s and early 2000\u2019s there wasn\u2019t really much opportunity to be a white hat, since that didn\u2019t really exist as a concept, all hackers were bad, there was no real information security, at least not like how it is today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent most of my life in technology though. I went to a trade school for electronics and continued in the electronics field in the Navy after high school, specializing in communications. After this I got a job doing electronics assembly and repair. After a few years I started messing around with spreadsheets in order to keep track of the repairs I was doing, and I started to implement simple analytics in Excel. At this time, a friend in IT at the company where I worked, told me that I should really just start using a database. From there I got into IT proper, as well as started to learn how to program.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A long story short, I continued in IT in many forms both general and specific. Then I decided to try for my childhood dream. Times had changed and you could actually make a really good living in infosec, it was a thing now and it was legal. I studied for and received my OSCP back in 2018. I was on my way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here now at the end of 2023 I\u2019ve come to realize a lot of things. The main one is that I don\u2019t care to be a hacker. I have no passion for offensive security, for pentesting, for red teaming. I tried. I really did. I wanted to be something so badly, that all I did, and thought was around that one goal, being a hacker. For some, that\u2019s great, it just wasn\u2019t for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I realized that I was just LARPing as a hacker. I found myself becoming increasingly arrogant towards the \u201cblue team\u201d and any defensive systems. They were the enemy, and what did they know? The real cool guys in the infosec world are the hackers, all dressed in black hoodies sitting in some basement surrounded by neon lights like some cross between Mr. Robot and Cyberpunk 2077. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are legitimate white hats out there, they are amazing and great and do some really impressive work. That\u2019s just not me. For the first time I\u2019m actually happy. I\u2019m not defeated, I\u2019ve dealt with that a lot, I\u2019m not burdened, I have been before with these things, but for the first time, I feel relieved. I don\u2019t have to pretend any more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a far better programmer than I am a hacker. I am far better at DevOps than red teaming. I\u2019m actually looking forward to working toward and getting cloud security certs for Azure, since that\u2019s what my job is currently, a security engineer specializing in cloud security. For the first time, I\u2019m totally okay with that, and I\u2019m excited to start getting better at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new journey is beginning for me. I\u2019ve made it through the Swamp of Sorrow, and Artax is no longer with me, but that\u2019s okay, because I\u2019m riding high on Falkor! Okay, that\u2019s enough of that movie. Seriously though, things are good, and I look forward to posting more here as my new journey continues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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