Try. It to feel that way. If anything infosec (and “hacker culture at large) is unique thanks to the fact that we are “non-traditional”. Use this to your advantage and don’t give up!

Check this out https://taggartinstitute.org/p/the-homelab-almanac. (Shoutout to @mttaggart@infosec.town .)

Omg. I too have developed an “affinity” for coffee as of late. Have been thinking of cutting back. There’s always tomorrow right?

Congrats! Getting some momentum is usually the hardest part. I’ve been pretty regularly going to the gym since last October and I can safely say I have a decent groove now. Plus the results have been pretty good so far. You didn’t ask, but here’s what I’ve been doing for the most part - https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/08/current-training-splits

Yes. Happens in a lot of companies I think, especially “older” companies that don’t have big security focus. Honestly, I think if you’re a good manager you can be successful even if you aren’t super technical.

Meow 😸

Good question. In my experience, tryhackme is a bit more entry level material so I would go with that if you were newer to the subject. Assuming either or both have decent DFIR content to begin with, I might start with tryhackme and then go to HtB. If you are bored with ThM material you might want to jump right to HtB. I’ve tried to catalog some other blue team trainings here if you’re interested https://shellsharks.com/online-training#blue-team-forensics-threat-hunting-soc-etc.

Would never say no to more. Could probably make more at same level. But am mostly happy / feel fortunate for where I’m at.

Check this out https://taggartinstitute.org/p/the-homelab-almanac. (Shoutout once again to @mttaggart@infosec.town .)

His friends kept telling him to stop being a square…