I recently decided to go back to school and get a job in the tech industry. I’m looking at cyber security but I’m not looked into that decision.

  1. What degree would you recommend someone to pursue?

  2. What field would you recommend after graduating?

  3. What would you tell someone to avoid at all cost?

  • count_borrell@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been in tech for 30 years now and this is the really key advice. I’ve know several people who were very good developers but fundamentally do not like the process of software development. And they are completely miserable because of that. It’s great if you can find a job you love working at but that requires a lot of luck. Having a job you generally enjoy and it gives you enough money to do the hobbies that you really love then you are doing great.

    On what degree to get, most of the time, outside of your first or second job, if a company cares about your degree more than your work experience then they are probably not somewhere you want to work.

    All that said, anything security related will stay relevant as will as cloud system admins/engineers/architects. If you want a tech role that will last, doing something that is about designing and maintaining systems rather low-level implementation will server you a lot better.

    Also, @funnyletter@lemmy.one what are you talking about? Blockchain is super useful for money laundering and blackmail and committing fraud and bribery and and… ok maybe not the best area to try and build a career in.

    • upstream@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I know someone who’s company were dealing in payments and they were being targeted by persistent DDoS attacks, hacking attempts, and even supply chain attacks (received modified hardware).

      No ransom were made. If you read the articles about the biggest DDoS attacks CloudFlare had mitigated last year? That was them.

      The attackers had found when they took down their services banks would go to a fallback solution and not require 3D-secure. When they were down - they could buy bitcoins with stolen credit cards.

      And this was their day-job. Attacks occurred basically for 8 hours a day, five days a week. They would take holidays, both seasonal and four to five weeks of summer holidays.

      So clearly, fully possible to build a career in.

      I should note that when the objective was understood they talked to their bank clients, explained the MO and they all shut down their fallback solutions.