My cybersecurity Journey since I started
To whoever’s reading this, to be honest as much as i enjoy hacking since i was introduced to this world by my mentor I thought this is it, this is what i want to do for the rest of my life, coming from an individual who was intrigued by investing since i was 13 i knew I needed to think of the future for company i built…starting out it wasn’t all a bed of roses, there was/is so much to learn and even though I have read, practiced…practiced I really do not feel like my skill set hacking wise has changed since 2020 adding to the fact I started to develop Imposter syndrome it led me to take a break from hacking for a whole year! At the time that was back in 2022 i thought i did the right thing…boy was I wrong, most of those who started the same path with me developed into some awesome ninjas.
When I asked one of them, how they got good, their response: “Think of building a house and the info you gather store it in there,” the crazy thing is when they told me that, all I i could think about was Investing and the info I gathered over the past two years, the mindset of both a hacker and an Investor are very similar but not the same especially in the case of when it comes to rest, to be a great hacker, you don’t get to rest at all, on the side as an Investor, you cannot make great decisions without having rested well…you see where I am going with this. It’s been a battle for me even if I make a schedule..maybe I am just complaining and I haven’t done enough or failed enough as a hacker to even voice out my opinions…as much as I have found my edge as an Investor but as a hacker i really don’t have one..sometimes i wish i met or knew of my mentor back in high-school or back when i was in college just studying for my business management btec and not in university, cause even that cut into my learning when it came to hacking..i know…i know some of you are Einsteins(clap for yourselves) I had to really immerse myself in schoolwork just to pass even if i made a schedule.
When the pandemic started that’s when I found my stride as a hacker, cause I didn’t have to focus on anything else…i could just watch my class recordings later and still pass…I am grateful for where I am now as I have met so many great cybersecurity professionals and seen what it takes to make it in this field…maybe just maybe I need to allow myself to fail, there are sometimes i think of just dying but i can’t do that i have a purpose and a private equity firm Wise capital, and before you give that side-eye it will not be the traditional type of private equity ruining lives for the sake of profits and business costs to build first but ideas of work i have been thinking of and since i was 18 plus that’s going against all that Christ did for me on the cross and after as I rose up with him as a new creature. Even if i have had 200+ rejections to cybersecurity roles that i applied for but that’s another story for another time when i feel like telling it. I haven’t only found consistency in Investing which in itself is quite hard to do but also in my wingchun and resistance training but hacking is where i draw the line? 😂it’s funny to me.
Going forward:
I think I will seriously cut off WhatsApp in its entirety in the sense of group-chats , smalltalk, seeing people’s statuses just like i did on Instagram and Facebook back in March this year to really lock in on my investing journey. Then also just focusing on understanding every hacker book i come across and dicumenting all of it here, that i have read or going to read and if i don’t understand it i will no longer be afraid to ask for help from my mentor and other ninjas, which is what i should have done at the start of my journey but not to be spoon-fed, I never had this confidence before hacking, i got it once i started my Investing Journey 3 years ago even writing my thoughts was something i would normally keep to myself. There’s nothing else i can write, if you read this thank you for actually doing that be blessed.
