Hobby

If anyone asks me, “where will you be 3 years down the line?” Sometimes I don’t know what to say. Because everyone is saying the bore answers like I want to be a SYSTEM ANALYST, PROJECT MANAGER or PROJECT LEADER…etc (some kind of next level designation in their field)

I generally have the habit of saying something like “technical architect”, some tech jargon that should be different from normal answers (even that is common nowadays :-)). But if I think, do I really want to become like that? I don’t know.



When I was reading the below link, I thought I should change the answer for the question in the first line (3 years down the line)? So, my answer for that question is “ethical hacker”. It looks odd initially but if you explain well then no issues, I think. (If I read any other article, I may change it to some other designation:-), But time being I will choose this)

Definition for ethical hacker:
An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit.

I heard this word long time back and I knew a lot of financial domain groups are spending very big chunk money in this field.

Checkout this link, where I got this lead,
What I Learned at Hacker Camp

In the same way if anyone asks about my hobby that ‘s also one difficult question to answer (I mean tech. Hobbies, not cricket and other stuffs). My default answer for that question is ‘READING TECH BLOGS’. I think this is correct time to change that habit too.

So here after, my tech hobbies should be,
* Play around with · REGEX (Regular Expression)
* Writing SQL queries (single query length should be more than 3 pages in the word document)

I have a basic knowledge on these areas. But I want to become an expert on this. For that, what are all the steps I should follow? I have to think (!). So, if you have any idea on this or if you find any web links, please send it to my gmail id (duraionly@gmail.com) or put that link as a comment here. Happy surfing.