aaronwdejong.net: A blog about life in IT with mental health.
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Cybersecurity and Programming
Cybersecurity Cybersecurity is one of the paths that I am focusing on this year. There is the Certified in Cybersecurity certification, from ISC2, that is a certification that I want to clear this year. This cert will get me to a better spot in my studies as far as cybersecurity goes. I will also be…
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New Direction
Certification Progress Currently working on the CompTIA Network+ and have around half of the training completed. This is due to me still having issues around Cisco exams. I think that I am going to have to go another way to resolve these anxiety issues. I am pushing off the CCST: Networking and CCNA to later…
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Starting off on the right foot
Happy New Year 2024 Happy New Year’s Day! This is going to be my first blog post in 2024. I am getting ready and excited for this year. I am already reading the first book, which is Terraform: Up and Running. Doing around 45 minutes throughout the day for reading. I am looking forward to…
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2024 Aspirations and Goals
Main Three Goals For 2024, I have aspirations and goals to work on three main certifications. These certifications are the CCST: Networking, CompTIA Network+, and the CCNA. I am also doing at least the training for the CompTIA Project+, AZ-900, and the CWNP CWT-101. Might get to these other three later on in the year…
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Thoughts on Next Year
Business Ideas I want to understand how a business works. There are some things that I have been thinking about regarding business and my next steps as an amateur entrepreneur or business enthusiast. I have been thinking about some companies that I would like to do. This would be like a peer to peer lending…
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End of Year Cleaning and Goals
Cleaning Up For the end of the year, I am on the last book which is the CWT-100 Certified Wireless Technician book by CWNP. I just finished the Computer Networking book this morning and was thinking about the things I have gone through this year. I have been working on my mental health and the…
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Progress on Mental Health
Mental Health Group In my spare time I have been managing a Colorado mental health group called Friend For All. It is a private group where I am the Admin and work on invites and upkeep of the group. If you want to join please let me know. My focus is mainly Stress and Anxiety…
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Milestones, Hobbies, and Interests
Hobbies A little more information about my hobbies, these include Entrepreneurship, Nutritional Supplements, Mental Health, Chef and Ruby Programming in addition to Spanish. Mental Health and Nutritional Supplements are two things that I do for myself, whether it is learning more about stress and anxiety management or some nutritional supplement that I can use to…
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IT and Personal Goals for 2024
Programming Skills Working on my programming skills for next year. For this, I am wanting to finish Learn to Code with Ruby which is a Udemy course. There are also some other goals that I am working on like doing the JavaScript and Python courses on skillsforall.com. In addition, I will be watching YouTube and…
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Update on my newer projects
TryHackMe On TryHackMe, I have recently made it into the top 10%. This is something that I have been working on as a newer project and is a cybersecurity learning and CTF site based in the UK. I find that I am working more on Linux and Networking skill rooms. These are both good skills…
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