Do CTFs prepare you to be hacker?

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do you think cts prepared you for the job you have now and i i i'm assuming yes because you're here um and that's what you love doing but was there a big learning curve going from the ctf mentality to doing what you do now oh you asked two antithetical questions right beside each other [Laughter] come on second way out of this one yes i i do feel the ctf's prepared me uh for what i do and for everything that it kind of came along my way uh and no i didn't feel like i needed a whole lot else which is weird because there's the conversation of oh are ctf's just a game are they not real world enough there was a really good tweet and i saw some folks uh chatting about it in the in the live chat for the stream here ipsec another creator another great hacker had tweeted yeah and said out lied out loud publicly like look capture the flag is what got me my job that's where it got me where i am today like back in x however many years ago i didn't know anything about cyber security i didn't know anything about hacking or vulnerabilities or exploits or any of this stuff capture the flag is what got me there when i took my offensive security certified professional the oscp that people the certification that folks considered like the holy grail of the industry for some reason they oh i'm sorry we'll talk about that here in a second i passed my oscp because i played so many capture the flag events