In 1997, I did not choose a related industry after graduating from a civil engineering junior college. One is that I don’t think it’s profitable to do civil engineering, and the other is that doing civil engineering is very hard. In our industry, if you graduated from a university with a degree or above, your salary must be very high. If there is a high temperature subsidy in summer, you can earn more than 10,000 a month just after graduation, but civil engineering still cannot escape to work on the construction site. Pain, that is, tiredness. If a college graduate like me goes to work on a construction site, the probation period is usually half a year or more, and a monthly salary of 3,000 is already a high salary, let alone tens of thousands.
So, I chose to work in sales after graduating from university, but as I got older and 20 years of irresistible factors, I felt more and more powerless. As long as you are willing to do it, you can do it, and newcomers are very capable, and the competition is extremely fierce; second, as a salesman, you deal with different people every day, basically there is no holiday, and you are busy from morning to night, and sometimes you don’t even have time to eat The third is that Wuhan has been turned upside down in the past 20 years, and life has undergone major changes, and we are still troubled by it until now.
In fact, I started thinking about changing careers a long time ago, and it wasn't until the beginning of my 20s that I decided to change careers.
But like many people, I was confused for a long time before making the decision to change careers. Clearing up my career plan is easy to say, but I have no clue. Because I have never done anything except sales, I don't know what I like, and I don't know what I am good at. Later, after my sister knew about my situation, she advised me to switch to IT. Before my sister told me to switch to the IT industry, I didn't think about it at all, after all, I had never touched a computer. Apart from being able to play games, and I am very repulsed by programmers, I don't want me to become that kind of bald and greasy plaid shirt IT man in the future. Then my sister said to me with a muddy expression that could not support the wall: There is a reason why I asked you to switch to IT. Your brother-in-law is engaged in IT. Do you think he is as bald and greasy as you imagined? You don't understand this industry at all, so you made a judgment based on your inherent impression... Do you know how popular your brother-in-law is now?
Then my sister called my brother-in-law and asked my brother-in-law to explain to me what their IT is. My brother-in-law told me that it is the direction of network security, and network security is divided into reverse and penetration testing. I am now a reverse engineer, the salary will be higher, but it will be difficult for zero foundation; the salary of penetration testing will be relatively low, but it is easy to get started, and the salary is very high compared with other industries. You can learn the direction of penetration testing and learn well. You can also ask me to teach you reverse engineering after you get it.
After going back and forth, I became a little interested in penetration testing. Then, I immediately searched for penetration testing-related content on the Internet, such as: "What is penetration testing?" "Penetration testing salary?" "How to learn penetration testing?" "How long does it take to switch to penetration testing?" What is it?" "Is penetration testing good for finding a job?" and other various questions, but there are many things to say on the Internet, saying that there are many and complicated things to learn about penetration testing, and it is not difficult to master it. It does not make money, so it is lower than the development salary, etc.
My brother-in-law called me again, and I asked him what a penetration test is, and he said that it can be understood as a hacker in layman's terms. When I mentioned this, my interest was immediately aroused. After all, it is very cool to wear black clothes and black sunglasses in the movie, and control circuits, printers, etc. with just a few keystrokes. Then my brother-in-law told me that he knew a big guy in the industry, and now he is doing penetration testing training by himself, and asked me to learn from him. Of course, the tuition fee is not cheap, but it can really let me acquire knowledge, and there is also a certain guarantee for work.
After much deliberation, I decided to give it a try! Firstly, my brother-in-law has already been engaged in this industry, and his development is not bad, and I will have someone to take care of me in this industry in the future; secondly, there is indeed a bit of "gambling" in it, because now I only have a superficial understanding of this industry. I don't know if I will like it after I really do it; thirdly, my family members are more supportive to me, which gave me a lot of confidence and support. Especially my brother-in-law, told me that Jiege's skills are really good, and he is very good at teaching students.
Although I have decided to study, but as the saying goes: Think twice before acting. I still searched for penetration testing training institutions on various platforms and compared them. Either it is an online course, or there are dozens of people in a class, or it has a very bad reputation, or it is full of advertisements... In contrast, I resolutely went to Jiege to sign up .
After a period of study, I have increasingly discovered the wonders of penetration testing. It does not require you to have strong coding skills. What it needs is whether you can be "different" and find different ideas to bypass some protections. And I found that the prospect of this industry is very good, the country attaches great importance to this aspect, and the salary of my former classmates is also what I am very yearning for. The salary development and development space are very good, so I have become more and more confident, more and more willing to learn, and I am more optimistic about this industry.
Later, the study was over, passed the assessment smoothly, and successfully graduated. The students in the class began to submit resumes and interviews very early, and a small number of them had already received offers before finishing their studies. I am a very confused person, very slow in making decisions, and very slow in choosing companies. After seeing that all my classmates found jobs, I was really anxious. Then I randomly made a resume and put it up, and I applied to several companies, but no one responded. At that time, I was a little discouraged. After seeing that I was in a bad state, Sister Jing chatted with me, and then helped me change my resume, submit my resume, etc., although several companies were quite interested. But at this time, Brother Jie told me that there was a job recommendation and asked me if I wanted to go. I thought to myself that the job recommended by Brother Jie must not be worse than the job I found, and I didn't know which city to go to or what job to look for. So I went to the company recommended by Jie Ge.
Of course, I also went in after several rounds of interviews. I was very nervous at the beginning, but after sister Jing and brother Jie taught me the interview experience, it was much easier. I passed the interview smoothly and my monthly salary reached 10K!
Later, this classmate studied by himself during his work, took down many websites by himself, and found many loopholes. Now I have successfully changed jobs and got a 20K offer!