Went from devops/SRE to pentest/code auditing in my 30s. Best decision ever. Took about a thousand hours of refreshing my offensive hacking skills. Maybe 2.5

Went from devops/SRE to pentest/code auditing in my 30s. Best decision ever. Took about a thousand hours of refreshing my offensive hacking skills. Maybe 2.5 years of intense work. This and two intermediate security jobs until I landed the dream job in the dream team. There is hope for you. The effort alone is rewarding. If I had not reached anything with my struggle, it still would have been worth it.