Flynding Your Place

My whole life I’ve been obsessed with flight, I always dreamed of growing up to be a pilot; when I turned 18 I joined the Air Force as an Air Traffic Controller hoping for that to be my path into the world of aviation. Well it turns out that air traffic control gave me a chronic anxiety condition and after two years in the Air Force my dreams were dashed. What do you do after your plans change, how do you figure out what is next in life, how have I gone from leaving the Air Force without a path forward to speaking at amazing conferences like Bsides Milwaukee and contributing to the world of cybersecurity?