The Boring Path to $100k+ in Cyber That Actually Works
By Josh Madakor
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⚡️ Start your IT/Cyber Career — Real Environment — No Exp Req. ⚡️ https://skool.com/cyber-range ——— I answer a question about when I started my career by walking through the whole thing — from broke at 21 playing World of Warcraft to roughly $1.5M this year. Covers the moment that made me lock in, enrolling in community college at 22, switching out of CS after nearly failing data structures, the $10/hour help desk job, landing my first full-time IT role at 24, and the ten years I stayed at one job stacking certs and a WGU degree because I was terrified of being poor again. Then the Japan pay cut, the job hopping, the first cybersecurity role, the Microsoft years, working two jobs at once, and eventually leaving to build the Cyber Range. The actual point isn't the path — it's picking things that obviously move the needle toward your goal and doing them to exhaustion, because most of your competition quits within the hour. ——— 00:00 Intro 00:07 User Question 00:47 ★彡 MAIN POINT OF V
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