Finding My Way Back into Technology

In 2019, I got into a university business course where they also taught IT (not business-related IT, but proper IT). Even though their IT was too easy and I was already aware of more than half of their syllabus, passing the exams was never a big deal for me (unlike my classmates who got multiple backlogs because they did not possess the technical knowledge that was required there).

Since I was pursuing a somewhat "technical" degree, it did give me a little motivation to study IT again; it wasn't too much, but enough that I again started using Linux and tinkering around systems a little. But the consequences were still there—I had lost my interest in the field of cybersecurity, where I was doing good, and I still haven't gotten that back, nor do I think I will now. 2020 marked the era of COVID-19, meaning lockdown, and my semester exams got canceled due to the unannounced lockdown in India (thankfully, I came back to my hometown to celebrate Holi but stayed longer because of the lockdown, lol). But the cancellation of exams meant 3 months of free time (exam break + a month of exams that were supposed to happen offline + a month for them to prepare for online classes).

During that era, I focused more on installing custom ROMs (I had a Redmi Note 7S at that time) and building one for myself, though I found compiling kernels more interesting. But since my course wasn't actually technical (which was a requirement at that time for most jobs), I ended up getting an HR job. But that is where things changed because guess what? I ended up fixing my work laptop on the very first day (it had a Windows issue which the technical support team couldn't fix either). Later on, the lead of Technical Support became my friend and always used to assign me the task of fixing something regarding the network or system if something broke, even though it wasn't officially my job. But that motivated me enough to return back to this rabbit hole again. Soon I quit my job and somehow found my way into a Master's degree, which was a fully technical course.