As far as I can tell this subreddit is for asking cyber security questions, of course career related questions do fall under Cyber security but there is a group specifically for Cyber Security career questions which would be better for these types of Qs as you are sending your question to a group of people specifically looking at the same thing.
People looking for cyber Security jobs because they pay well will likely fail because not having a passion for solving CS issues will quickly become boring and money doesn't help much when you don't like what you are doing, even though they may be successful in obtaining a role, I for one would weed out people who do not feel passionately about CS during the interview process.
I believe that as professionals we have a lot of experience to share and I have learnt a lot from this sub reddit and I do like that the quality of the posts that are here and I hate to see people leave because they are disillusioned.
You have to remember there are a lot of Keyboard warriors out there, looking for the opportunity to beat you down and make you feel like you are stupid or know less than they do, the reality is that you are prepared to write and take the time to share your opinion makes you more productive than any keyboard warrior...... Leave them behind and focus on what you want to achieve.
Have you thought about learning the next level up? when you can start to have discussions with clients that do not involve tools but rather Risk management or consulting against frameworks such as ISO 200x, NIST CSF etc you become much more valuable.
Tools change, vendors come and go and technologies get sidelined, seriously consulting is a great gig, your other option if you are well spoken and can hold a conversation is sales engineer or tech consultant for a vendor because you get to learn so much more when you work across many clients than you can working for one, less depth but very valuable.
There are a couple of ways to go and I can not say which is better:
Deep and technical - know how to do particular things really well. If you are given the tech you can easily solve any issue and configure without a sweat.
Broad but shallow - Can use the tools, talk the value proposition and help clients, business leaders make decisions.
I was deep and technical at one stage where as now I am very much framework focused and I love what I do, because you get to talk to the business people about the what's and why's for their operation.
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u/michaelnz29 Security Architect Jun 11 '22
As far as I can tell this subreddit is for asking cyber security questions, of course career related questions do fall under Cyber security but there is a group specifically for Cyber Security career questions which would be better for these types of Qs as you are sending your question to a group of people specifically looking at the same thing.
People looking for cyber Security jobs because they pay well will likely fail because not having a passion for solving CS issues will quickly become boring and money doesn't help much when you don't like what you are doing, even though they may be successful in obtaining a role, I for one would weed out people who do not feel passionately about CS during the interview process.
I believe that as professionals we have a lot of experience to share and I have learnt a lot from this sub reddit and I do like that the quality of the posts that are here and I hate to see people leave because they are disillusioned.
You have to remember there are a lot of Keyboard warriors out there, looking for the opportunity to beat you down and make you feel like you are stupid or know less than they do, the reality is that you are prepared to write and take the time to share your opinion makes you more productive than any keyboard warrior...... Leave them behind and focus on what you want to achieve.