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lol
Do you know any federal tech workers? They are almost always trading down from what they could—or did—earn in the private sector.
Please note that if you have a job in which you're mostly idle, it will break your soul. I lost almost all of my initiative for more than a decade after my stint as a very under-worked system administrator.
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Literally this. For the most part this part of the industry is a fraud. They just run scanning tools and hand out pdf reports. Eventually some dev or ops team will say the reasons why they currently can’t comply and the cycle will start again in 6 months. They literally do nothing and don’t even have to help integrate the security fixes. They just give reports. A sweet gig if you can get it. People rarely want to cut…
Won't they be on the hook if there is a breach?
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Do you know any federal tech workers? They are almost always trading down from what they could—or did—earn in the private sector.
They're doing that because the job is cushy and safe. Source: worked for the federal government before. It was cushy and safe.
I know someone working in Cyber Security, basically his job is to set a bunch of alerts for the client companies, all already predefined by a software, he basically sits, checks for new alerts from time to time and reports any issues, it does not require more than a 3 min investigation per alert or more work than to block the attacker IP in obvious cases. I'm thinking of leaving my job and join the same company, it e…
If your infosec folks are always working 95%, they won't have time for the second two categories.
Defense industry. You get paid reasonably well to work at the pace of your government customers, who are almost never in a hurry.
State schools is what you want. Strict 9-5, no overtime, no expectations, insane bureaucracy that makes everything slow down to a crawl. You can spend years there without doing anything at all.
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I agree on both points; government work can involve very little real work with no real stress of being fired. Similarly, doing meaningless work will destroy your soul and will make you hate your time in the office even more. I'd even go so far as to say caring deeply about your profession is a western value, and trying to work as little as possible is going to be difficult in a western country
> doing meaningless work will destroy your soul You think commercial software is meaningful? You think web apps, mobile apps, etc. are meaningful? If so, you are very lucky!
It is against my interests to post this, but I'm slightly self-hating about my lack of work ethic so I will anyway. I have had around 8 jobs and only one of them required a full day's work. Usually they are around 20 hour weeks, and occasionally a job has been 5 hour weeks discounting meetings. My managers usually love me and may even extoll my virtues to the team. I've spent a lot of time wondering how this is possi…