one of the main reasons i started this blog project was to document my transition into pentesting as a career. i suppose i should do more of that considering i have't actually done any at all. 

it's a bit of a long story to get from the beginning to this point so it's probably best just to start here and work forwards, explaining backstory when appropriate.

i'm doing approximately 3 hours of python and 4 - 5 hours of tryhackme a day. i'm making a lot of progress, though it's difficult to quantify how much and how fast. i know a lot more now that i did last month and an infinite amount more than i did when i started. almost all of what i'm learning now is useful for relatively easy ctf exercises. i have no idea how much of it will be useful in real world pentesting. i think what i now understand conceptually is valuable, even if the actual commands i'm working with don't often apply. maybe most importantly, i've been keeping extremely detailed notes...probably too many to be useful, but they can be trimmed as needed. if i can't remember gobuster syntax, i definitely know where to find that information quickly.