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How to Use AI in IT Work Without Losing Your Job
Do you think that you can use AI in IT work without losing your job? I do. I am 52, and over the past year, AI has done more work for me than several of the juniors I used to onboard. I also work less than I did, and I have more time for myself. The tasks that used to...
How to Prove Cybersecurity Skills Without a Degree
I do not have a computer science degree. I studied journalism. Twenty-five years later, I secure Microsoft 365 environments for companies, at rates I once assumed were fictional and certainly unavailable to a journalism graduate. So when someone asks whether they need...
How to Get Your First Upwork Client as an IT Consultant
I took the call from a car parked next to a gravel pit somewhere in rural Romania, because my friend was late and I had a ten-thousand-dollar-a-month conversation scheduled. It worked anyway. That call won me my first Upwork client as an IT consultant and kicked off...
Cybersecurity Career Change After 40 – What Actually Works in 2026
So do you want to do cybersecurity career change after 40? I don't have good news for you. A single junior IT opening now pulls in hundreds of applications. Not dozens. Hundreds. That is the market in 2026. The pandemic ended, company budgets shifted, AI arrived, and...
How I Test Intune and Microsoft 365 Policies Without Breaking Production
It is 3 in the afternoon. You push one Conditional Access policy. You assigned it to All Users because the pilot group felt like extra work, and the policy requires a compliant device. Except for a few items, nothing in this tenant is enrolled yet. Ninety seconds...
What Does a Cybersecurity Specialist Actually Do All Day?
Black screen. Green text falling down it. Someone typing at the speed of ligh, who after ten seconds announces: "I am in." Ask what does a cybersecurity specialist actually do and that scene is the picture most people have. It describes maybe one percent of...