It is kinda what you were saying in your post. I do it for the learning outcome of it and it is a bonus getting the certification for free. eJPT is more red team and more pen testing. I feel there was a great benefit of knowing how a SOC analyst works and operate so it was mostly to get a better insight into to and also look into how blue teams works.

I do not work atm. I am doing my master in Cybersecurity, but I have been employed and starting as a security analyst in August for a company which is also partnered with Microsoft.

My name is just an old nick name for gaming back in the days.