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...
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...
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...
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...
I work in cybersecurity, and at almost every conference talk or professional presentation, someone asks the same question: "How did a journalism graduate end up in cybersecurity?" Without a computer science degree. No connections in tech. No Plan B. Just one book...
Remote and hybrid work aren't a temporary fix anymore - for a huge share of us, home is simply where the job happens now. Whether you're fully remote, splitting your week between the kitchen table and the office, or just started a new role that lets you skip the...