@scottaltiparmak: I know “you should actually care about cybersecurity” sounds obvious, but that’s not really my point. Cybersecurity has been marketed as a career almost anyone should consider because of the salaries, demand and opportunities. What gets left out is how difficult the path to those outcomes can be. Breaking in is hard. The amount you need to learn is enormous. Technology constantly changes. Burnout is real. And you’re entering a field full of people who will spend their Friday night building a lab, researching some obscure vulnerability or messing with Linux simply because their brain enjoys figuring this stuff out. That doesn’t mean you need to have been hacking computers since you were 12. And it definitely doesn’t mean you can’t start from zero. It means I wouldn’t choose this career purely because someone told you it’s a good career. If technology genuinely makes you curious, cybersecurity can be an incredible field. If it doesn’t, there are plenty of great careers I’d recommend before this one. Part of what I want to do on this platform is show you the cybersecurity industry I actually experience, not just the version that gets sold on social media. #cybersecurity #infosec #cybersecuritycareer

x6spookiedookie9x :

AI is basically doing everything in IT that isnt GRC.

mrblue :

I want to go into pentesting and low-key spend all my free time tinkering and playing / building project / hacking things. Studying for certs, looking at threat Intel. And even helped my classmates find, patch vulnerabilities in cloud environments, web applications. And even in my class created a multi tenant SIEM, to help my team and classmates monitor there web app servers that where public.

Jaiaj Ejdkdi :

every single one of your points applies to almost every career

owsu :

trust me bro, nobody wants go to into cyber

Snoop :

I would love to get into pen testing but that specialization is kind of dying right now..

elienzwemehercules :

😂 You have to be ready to adapt with changes that happens everyday, especially with threats and and challenges that come along the way. You have to keep learning too. It’s not for the weak

alth :

I never did that well in school, so learning cybersecurity in my first year of cc has been difficult! I have a hard time retaining the information. Sometimes i feel bad because i’m not like a obsessed nerd about this stuff so i think i’ll fall behind. Though i have persistence i will make it

pastraman :

advice to anyone who wants to go into pentesting: do binary exploitation, the learning curve IS huge but it is 1: the most fun you will have out of any cyber security adjacent career. 2: its the best most in need form of offensive cyber security

obialexdigital :

that's perfect advice

Joseph Harb :

OJ :

THEN GIVE ALTERNATIVES

mac :

I enjoy learning about cybersecurity but my plan is to go into IT first

alex :

TLDR find your passion with a balance of love and moneymaking

Curious.me :

totally agree 💯💯