That's good that you found the light. I'm currently studying full time again (postgraduate course) and fearful that I'll be heading into another job that will be awfulQre8ive wrote:The only way to get out is to find something you love doing. I used to do brainless work from 9 to 6 every day, 5 days a week. Every day I would look at the clock and be like "fuck another 3 hours left" and every Sunday I would dread that work would start again the next day. Vacations we're a bliss and well-needed to rest.
I now have a job I love maybe a little too much, where I need to watch out I don't work too many hours a week (only getting paid for 40). I do have a 6-month-old daughter at home though, so in my free time I mostly just spend time with her and my wife.

I'm doing a cybersecurity course with software programming, the programming module is easy to me (have experience already). Cybersecurity can be pretty broad, I didn't go into this with a passion, I felt like it was just a good area to be upskilled on. I'm more so interested in pen testing, but there's a nasty corporate side to this too