Cybersecurity is the stable, prosperous, career that Hai spent 15 years looking for.
But he it took him a long time to realize it was a good fit.
“Growing up, going to school, I was never good at any of the STEM categories,” he said. “Math, no, engineering, no, science, no. Very limited exposure to technology classes in the schools that I went to. So I was definitely jumping into the deep end of the pool here, but I’m glad that I did.”
The first member of his family to graduate college, Hai tried every job he could get his hands on before transitioning his career into technology.
Today he’s a senior member of a medium sized cybersecurity company. “And I owe a lot of that to Calbright,” he said.
“A lot of people who went to school for four years to get their cybersecurity degrees but didn’t have hands-on real life exposure or the right expectation setting don’t make it in the industry,” he said. “Calbright provided a lot of what I think of as connective tissue, the hands-on labs, the real experience, the support structures. That helped me stay the course. My success now was hard won, and I certainly didn’t do it alone. I had faculty at Calbright who were there to answer every question, not just about the technology but about the career.”
He recommends Calbright to people like him, who don’t have a technical background but who want to take a chance on themselves.
Read the story of how Hai found cybersecurity, Calbright, and success, here.
