What is it like being an ethical hacker or pentester?

I'm very interested in ethically hacking a company I work for to patch vulnerabilities. I'm more interested in going on the offensive, using tools to try and breach the network. I don't think I'd enjoy just basically monitoring a network and responding to security breaches at potentially 3 a.m.

I read a post on here from a person regretting pentesting, saying, "It’s 70% scanning, 25% meetings, and then an actual 5% testing and it’s only really reporting on stuff and …

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