How I almost land my first job in IT as a Trainee IT Security Project Manager

Hello people, I don't normally write posts like this, in fact, this is probably the first time I'm doing it, but I really need to rip this out of me.
About a week ago now I got a message from a talent scout offering me the opportunity to make a trial for an IT project MANAGER (trainee) position in a young and strong Fintech.
My first reaction was obviously to think it was a scam, I just started grinding hard in Cyber security 3 months ago, 7 months ago I didn't even knew the difference between a byte and a bit, and I have 0 IT background. But when I got obsessed with something...

I'm probably insane, I wake up in the morning, make my mocha with golden syrup and start studying until I need to run to don't arrive late to work, then, I work for 8/9 hours in the kitchen until I come back home, make another coffee, same recipe, sometimes I add a bit of mescal, but that's it. And I stay studying until i literally can't stand more.
So imagine my surprise when I got this message, I was in denial of course.
Me, who doesn't have any major certification (yet).
Me, who doesn't have any IT background or experience.
Me, who is not even looking for a job in IT because I don't feel ready.
So after a roller coaster of emotions, scepticism, hope, scepticism, hope.
I did the first interview and I pass it, they told me that I would have to do a technical assessment, the final trial.

I did the assessment yesterday at 8:00 am, is 1:30 am now in Edinburgh.
Yesterday by this time, before going to bed my LinkedIn account got permanently banned, not even have the chance to talk with support or know why, I still have no idea why.
After 2 minutes of panic, I got my shit together and in less than 20 minutes a new account was up and running, with all my network lost, but at least my resilience was in check, I can say I was somehow pleased. My mind was still pushing dark thesis on me, but I knew I needed to rest and somehow managed to do so.
I woke up at 7:00 am and did my caffeine rite, I signed an NDA so I'm not going to get into details, what I can tell you, is that it was way different from what they told me it was going to be, way harder, 3/4 of the tools I need to use, I never had used them before, was mainly improvising all the time, which is not what you want to do when you are doing a technical assessment.
It was my first experience ever hacking in real life, which is very different from CTF. Everything feels different, everything reacts differently.
You may know already that I didn't pass, but I can tell you one thing. I did found bugs, and each of them felt like pure glory, it felt real.

Bug bounty is something that was completely out of my scope as I thought I needed more level to start getting my hands into, but today I found bugs, like real-life ones.
Anyway I had to go work at 16:00 and I was running out of time, so I just submitted what I had, I run into some technical problems...Well, I create some problems for myself.

One thing people, If you have ever been told to do a passive reconnaissance...

...keep it passive, and don't try to go Kevin Midnight, at the end of the day is not a CTF.
So I arrive late to work, very tired of everything that had happened to me in the last 12 hours and my boss was a dick to me. we normally get along very well, is a small restaurant run by two Neapolitan brothers, one runs the kitchen and the other runs the rest, he is the main capo.
Well, I was not in the mood of taking any shit so I quick my job. Simone his little brother and my bother in arm during the last months in the kitchen, cried for me, and that broke my heart, I don't remember the last time someone cried for me leaving.
I leave all the time, I'm very good at disappearing, I leave jobs, cities, and countries, easy for me.

I'm normally so busy with my frenzy that I tend to ignore that sometimes people care about me and that I mean something to them.
He will never read this, but I love him, He made me believe that there are still people out there with pure heart and innocence, and I'm so fucking sad, just sad. Not for LinkedIn, not for not passing the assessment, not for losing my job, I'm just sad for him.
But the show must go on and there is a new moon rising.
At the end of the day, I have been offered the opportunity to start my career on cyber as a manager... project manager... They came to me.

The whole experience has been extremely valuable, in fact, I feel way stronger than before.

I may have passed in less than 24 hours to be hoping for a massive change to don't even have a job anymore, but Im cool with it, I can even see the comedy touch on the whole drama.
I had hacked for the first time in real life.
I had my first trial for a job in IT, for a manager position and I almost make it.

When I left Spain almost 10 years ago for Berlin without speaking any English nor German or having any work experience, completely alone, people said I was not going to make it.

When I decided to leave Leeuwarden in the north of the Netherlands to come to Scotland to plant trees, people laugh at me because my English was not good enough they said, and Scottish people are hard to understand they said, well 4 years later I'm still here.

I survived Brexit, a pandemic, without furlough, without any government help, just wiping the asses of the abandoned old people of the UK, and I didn't infect anyone and I didn't get any fucking medal.
The flame carried by this heart is eternal and I will rip and tear, with a smile, with love and with hope until this flesh is dust.

I can tell you that soon or later I will make it to IT, into Cyber to be precise, just wait for it.
Never fucking give up