I was always aiming towards just being a gamedev, but since there weren’t many Bachelors degrees at the time focused on that, I went for Software Engineering, and then Masters in gamedev. However, experience working for alongside school in QA for a bigger gamedev company has kind of made me realize that corporate and AAA gamedev isn’t really art, and you’re basically the same code-monkey as you would be anywhere else, just for a lot less money. And since at the time I just played Watch Dogs 2 and was running a Shadowrun campaign, I was pretty into hacking at the time, solving CTFs and generally researching into it, which was prompted by one optional class on pentesting.

So I decided that since working in gamedev will probably leave me burnt out and with lot less money, I just applied for part-time cybersecurity job so I could finance my hobby gamedev career that’s not limited by the fact that it’s my livelyhood and I have to make money - and that makes every kind of art so much better. I still went for Masters in Gamedev, though. And after several years, the cybersec company started to turn more and more corporate, and I was offered a job at a small indie studio made of mostly friends, so I switched from full to part-time, and took another part-time for a lot less money but with an amazing work environment.

Besides that, Red Teaming is basically just LARPing Shadowrun, it sounded like the perfect job, just trying to talk and hack you way into banks and corporations, I couldn’t say no to that :D