>>34435197
If you feel like you will enjoy it then it's worth getting into. Forget about the money, just focus on the fact you have an interest for that line of work.

>>34435197
cybersecurity is based from what i've seen

>>34435222
It's a fake useless job, but probably pays well

>>34435227
>It's a fake useless job
bait?
>but probably pays well
it seems to, generally, yeah
might be hard to break into, but probably not much harder than other IT at this point, and seems like some of the more fulfilling/straightforward work with less bullshit

corpos tend to underspend on cybersecurity, they see it as a waste of money... until a breach happens & they see just how costly it is
or atleast that's how it was for a couple decades, maybe it's different now

>>34435235
Not bait. Keeping things secure and secret is impossible.

>>34435242
Nta but even if that's true the name of the game is to keep it secure and secret long enough for whoever you're working for to benefit

>>34435242
i guess so, but that's pedantic for the purposes of OP's thread, and you could probably apply similar shit to a lot of jobs
doesn't necessarily change the jobs being valuable or useful, definitely not in this case

i get ur point though, is true..

>>34435235
>bait?
Not really, cybersecurity is mostly a meme

>>34435279
(Most cyber security engineers only run DAST and SAST and that's it, they don't know much, and even those that don't, don't actually do much, you can still make money though, but most of the job is to write reports)

>>34435279
>>34435282
ah fuck...
good to know

>>34435197
You will need to keep farming certifications for the rest of your life which is the worst thing.

>>34435279
Cybersecurity is really just "legally minimum compliance officer"

>>34435197
A fairly advanced thing you could get into is Bioinformatics - basically coding software for biological data.

Jobs are from modeling bird/insect flight patters for MilTec companies to improve drones, to modeling proteins, to human genetics, to bioengineering new life.

The pay is good, but requires more than basic IT knowledge.

>>34437064
I thought you only needed like, 3, or something.

IT is either comfy and you get to hang out all day or you are losing your shit and want to dome yourself over a cascade of bullshit not working. I kind of regret doing IT mainly because my passion is history and literature. You have to be autistic about computers and want to study certs everyday if you want any chance of getting far in this field. The days of going to school for CS and immediately getting a job for 100k a year are over, now you have to show you are better than the 5000 other people in your area applying for the same job. I have a bachelors in CIS and it took me several hundred applications and a year working as a computer repair technician to get my current job which pays 20 an hour after taxes. Only do IT if you really, really like troubleshooting software and networking. If you just study it for the salaries they promise you than you are SOL. Look up the CSmajor subreddit if you want insight into how the current job market is, nearly everybody there wants to kill themselves lmao.

>>34435197
IT guy here. You can get in. I'd recommend pursuing Tester careers for easy entry and continuation. Try doing Quality Assurance internshiips.