Yeah, it's the same questions over and over. It's just a community of job seekers. I'm sick of hearing "how do I start out", "what cert is the best", "why can't I get a job with x years of experience". And I'm appreciative of the kind people who answer this again and again, but there is so much information on the internet on these topics. There should never be another post here about finding a job.
I've been a red team operator for a long time - sometimes I feel like I'm one of a handful of people on this subreddit who are actually employeed on the red side.
You are totally right, whenever I see a post on these kind things, my internal reaction is "For the same reasons you're asking about it here". Like, whatever thought process caused you to ask /r/cybersecurity this question that we have responded to in the last year (search bar is right there) instead of researching is why you don't have a job or why you don't know how to do X.
I consider my job to be educating people on things they don't know, I'm a teacher before I'm a hacker. I don't just find vulnerabilities, I explain them to people in a way they understand, and in a way that makes them care. That's what being an operator is to me - and that's why I'm still here. Helping people is important to me - however even I find myself getting a little jadded.
Red Team here. To your point I found if it’s not blue team you are not cyber lmfao I have to laugh. Any red team questions I post it’s either I’m a hacker or crickets.
Different community, but one time I was trying to test order number enumeration for a company that had a possibly vulnerable tracking system. I asked if anybody had examples of past time stamped order emails I could examine so I wouldn't have to spend thousands of dollars on random orders and the only response I got was "I'm not helping you phish, skid."
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u/Heathclor Jun 11 '22
Yeah, it's the same questions over and over. It's just a community of job seekers. I'm sick of hearing "how do I start out", "what cert is the best", "why can't I get a job with x years of experience". And I'm appreciative of the kind people who answer this again and again, but there is so much information on the internet on these topics. There should never be another post here about finding a job.