That's a mistake if you have a +-normal immunity. Ie childhood immunity is in desperate need of opponent so it can train itself. If you keep your kids in sterile environment, its more or less guaranteed they will end up with nasty allergies for the rest of their lives. I would expect this should be true in lesser form for adults too.
Anyway it doesn't make sense at all, most of the time folks are sick its not flu - its due to bacteria/viruses we already have in ie throat or nasal area that spot a weak moment (ie getting cold or eating too cold food) and attack. I basically get sick only like that during winter. One time I had pretty bad case of food poisoning from stale mayo and was so weak, I had sore throat and running nose almost immediately.
If you're an otherwise healthy individual,eating cold food or being moderately cold have no clinical relevance to internal body temperature or how often you get sick from viruses. You're passing off an old grandmother's myth as a medical observation.
We're not reaping the benefits of work anymore, it's mostly trickling upwards now so not really interesting. Makes sense to spend time on video games where you feel a bit more rewarded.
young people work 9-5 too you know. everything else follows that. not to mention when these young people eventually have kids and their lives revolve around school hours.
What I can share is my roadmap how I manage to break into the field without any prior professional IT experience.
1) Linux. Learn it and live in it.
2) Linux servers and databases.
3) CompTIA Network+ (only for the knowledge, didn't bother getting the cert)
4) CompTIA Security+ (same as above)
5) OSCP certification (not a golden ticken by any means but it helps to bypass HR)
That's basically it. While going down that road I focused on hands-on practice by actually hacking into machines with the help of following resources:
A) Hack The box (hackthebox.eu)
B) PentesterLab (pentesterlab.com)
I also really like Portswigger's Web Security Academy (portswigger.net) and Try Hack Me (tryhackme.com) but they weren't around when I was starting out but I would definitely check them out, especially if I was completely new to security today.
All in all it took me roughly a year but get comfortable enough to start applying to junior pentesting positions and eventually I got hired.
There are probably better and easier ways to do it but that's how I did it at least.
Hey thanks for this! I'm a senior dev and I just left my job. I'm going to be learning and studying full time but hopefully it doesn't take an entire year before I can get a job
I did not get a remote position. I eventually left the company though and started do consulting instead so I'm mostly working remote (and 100% at this point due to covid).
Do you recommend any books / courses that could help give me some sort of curriculum around this knowledge ?
I unfortunately don't know what I don't know, so I'd need a bit of guidance to learn efficiently. Something like http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ maybe ?
