Selling your skills rather than your career means focusing on the specific, tangible problems you can solve today, instead of relying on rigid job titles, corporate hierarchies, or past linear pathways. A career is just a history of where you have been; your skills are tools that show exactly what you can build next.

Criminal penalties for hackers range from one year in prison for minor unauthorized access to life imprisonment for cyberattacks that threaten national security or human life.