how do you guys balance learning with life? and imposter syndrome?
I try to study a lot, at least 6 hrs, tho i've gone up to 9, and as low as 4 (when I'm too busy with housework or sem exams, etc), for context, I've done CRTP, CPTS's course on HTB academy, ~85 machines on HTB, a lot of portswigger academy and a couple vulns on Hacker1 (I'm not really into web so i did bug bounty only for a month)... Now I'm doing CRTO with Windows internal crash course and OTD course... but every time I open LinkedIn, there's a guy doing 100s of challenges on HTB, solving pro labs and everything at once, so it makes me feel like I'm not doing enough.
What skills/achievements are in the top 10% candidates for roles like Red-teaming, VAPT, etc that differentiates them from others
I'm planning to complete Maldev Academy and learn some RE by the end of this year, and move on to Azure AD and HTB's AI red-teaming cert next year.
Posted Jun 22, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC