My biggest fear of perusing my dream of becoming an IAM engineer is my age. I'm 63 years old and I've been in IT for over 2 decades now. All the way from desktop/technical support to Cisco voice engineer. My Cisco voice contract ended in 2020 during the pandemic. In 2022, I joined a Cybersecurity internship. I realized I still have that passion to work in IT. After some research, I came across IAM. And I knew right away that IAM is my destination path. Therefore at this age, I feel that I can work as an IAM engineer and not be over whammed.

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Great learning experience so far

Just reached "build your first joiner workflow" stage of the lab. It's cool to see LDAP and IGA users getting updated after running reconciliation. 😀