I was interested in cybersecurity (mainly offensive) for a long time but I had no idea where to start. I remember finding a few apps on my phone and them being so superficial that I temporarily changed my mind: "is cybersecurity really just that?"
For a while I didn't think about it, I started learning web dev and then game dev (which I still like) but my mind sometimes went to "how do devs make anti-piracy games" and I loved when The Odin Project mentioned the difference between "textContent" and "innerHTML", touching XSS
One day I decided to search on my computer "how to learn how to hack" (I meant legally of course but I didn't even know it was called "ethical hacking") and TryHackMe's page showed up, I clicked on the first link I saw and registered
I tried the first room, I thought hacking was about typing fast, catching something at the right moment and trying to read a bunch of green text appearing on the terminal (very movie-like) but from that room I realized that it was more intuitive than this: it seemed like it was more about discovering what existed on the target to use to your advantage
From that day, more than a year passed, I've completed the legacy path of TryHackMe, Cybersecurity 101 and Jr Pentester (legacy), I'm still no expert, in fact I'm still a beginner, I'm learning the fundamentals (again) on HackTheBox and feel like I'm moving backwards instead of forward even though in reality I'm just developing stronger fundamentals to build on
