Not really sure why I'm posting now other than I just read Proxygo's reply to the 6yr unthankful (possible troll) account. Speaking of which, Proxygo, you're f'ing awesome! You're in the business of selling a product and you outright tell the world "This is how I do it, I will help you do it but I know people and they're lazy so I fear no competition!" Lol No, you haven't put it in those words (at least not that I've seen) but that's what I have drawn from reading your replies.
Me: Medium-machine operator who's body started saying no more a little over a year ago. Instead of riding that lightning off into the sky, I stupidly thought "hey there's a ton of money on the internet, I'm a fart smeller, err... smart feller, I should figure that out before my brain starts failing on me too."
Well, turns out, it's absolutely not that easy. Sure I was able to source things from garage-sales to dumpsters and sell them online, but time-vs-reward was often telling me I was working for a fraction of minimal wage and I should learn how to say, 'Welcome to _______! We hope you enjoy your shopping experience!'
Alright, so what can a guy with no money (I mean NO MONEY) and proper initiative accomplish?
codecademy and cybrary are GODSENDS!
I've been through the A+ certification 901 comptia courses cybrary offers and I've "renewed" my 1-week free trial about 15 times on codecademy. I've finished infosec networking fundamentals and I've moved into pentesting101 (14hr youtube video with Heath Adams) I'm into week 4 of his series right now as well as moving through Violent Python e-book in unison. I've started writing short python scripts to run in #bash, mainly for gathering, organizing and creating list files with grep and sed.
I can (and have) take throw-away components and make a working box from scratch, so long as ther is a kernel in there somewhere. I can brun an ISO to a disk-image and even create a network adapter to run a net-install version of Arch onto an old android device (samsung tablet with linux architecture). I can run burpsuite and BeEF as well as navigate hashcat, form a secure, firejailed networking VM environment and port scan, os detect.... and that's about where I'm at as far as my progress.
So, every day that goes by I learn more and every More that I learn, I realize how much More there is to go. Where do I see myself actually working/making money? Honestly, software development probably. The Pentesting is interesting and keeps me intrigued, but seems a bit thankless and I worked my entire life without recognition, I'd like to make something, before I die, that I might be remembered for other than a mess. I just looked and I've been through 38.2GB of videos getting here and who knows how many more lost as I created and destroyed several OS's figuring out how to install and operate Linux the right way.
Again, thank you guys. I guess I just realized I've alienated myself from the world and, as stupid as it sounds, you as well as posters over on stack-overflow and an onion board have been my peer-base through this past about 16 months. It is appreciated even if you aren't hearing it very often.
Me: Medium-machine operator who's body started saying no more a little over a year ago. Instead of riding that lightning off into the sky, I stupidly thought "hey there's a ton of money on the internet, I'm a fart smeller, err... smart feller, I should figure that out before my brain starts failing on me too."
Well, turns out, it's absolutely not that easy. Sure I was able to source things from garage-sales to dumpsters and sell them online, but time-vs-reward was often telling me I was working for a fraction of minimal wage and I should learn how to say, 'Welcome to _______! We hope you enjoy your shopping experience!'
Alright, so what can a guy with no money (I mean NO MONEY) and proper initiative accomplish?
codecademy and cybrary are GODSENDS!
I've been through the A+ certification 901 comptia courses cybrary offers and I've "renewed" my 1-week free trial about 15 times on codecademy. I've finished infosec networking fundamentals and I've moved into pentesting101 (14hr youtube video with Heath Adams) I'm into week 4 of his series right now as well as moving through Violent Python e-book in unison. I've started writing short python scripts to run in #bash, mainly for gathering, organizing and creating list files with grep and sed.
I can (and have) take throw-away components and make a working box from scratch, so long as ther is a kernel in there somewhere. I can brun an ISO to a disk-image and even create a network adapter to run a net-install version of Arch onto an old android device (samsung tablet with linux architecture). I can run burpsuite and BeEF as well as navigate hashcat, form a secure, firejailed networking VM environment and port scan, os detect.... and that's about where I'm at as far as my progress.
So, every day that goes by I learn more and every More that I learn, I realize how much More there is to go. Where do I see myself actually working/making money? Honestly, software development probably. The Pentesting is interesting and keeps me intrigued, but seems a bit thankless and I worked my entire life without recognition, I'd like to make something, before I die, that I might be remembered for other than a mess. I just looked and I've been through 38.2GB of videos getting here and who knows how many more lost as I created and destroyed several OS's figuring out how to install and operate Linux the right way.
Again, thank you guys. I guess I just realized I've alienated myself from the world and, as stupid as it sounds, you as well as posters over on stack-overflow and an onion board have been my peer-base through this past about 16 months. It is appreciated even if you aren't hearing it very often.