Friday, August 3, 2018

Career crisis, please help.

Hello ppl of reddit,

I need some career advice. Story of my life in nutshell: I was attempting uni (computer science), but i have not graduated, after i was doing all kind of low level job (cleaner, fork-lift driver, waiter...) then i got fed up and once a friend of mine (CCIE) suggested to start learning cisco. I did. I wanted to work in security, but first things first, need the fundamentals and i did ccna r&s. After i was looking for a job, but i quit and change again and change again and now i am at about to change again and im not sure what would be the smartest move right now.

First i got a network designer job in an SSC, this was too boring, no technical tasks. Standard designs, mostly worked in excel and visio. (about a year)

Then i got a junior pen-tester job (lower job grade as network designer), which was very cool, but the management was trying to fight the fire in a burning building with a cup of water...it was a mess and too much headache. So less value i could extract there. Basically we were reporting stock web app issues... (9 months)

Then i changed to system verification job (R&D). Basically i have to support my colleagues in a data center environment. Configuring underlay network and testing (regression,sanity) switch firmware, (in security aspect as well, but that is just a very small slice), reproducing customer issues and solving them. ( Trial period will end soon)

I got two offers:

One is a Cyber Threat Defence Analyst, which is an real-time, eye on glass job, where we need to review SIEM alerts and escalation by end users. Escalating anomalies.

The other is a network engineer. Operation and maintenance of global back bone, resolving trouble tickets, on call support (night and weekend), domain registration.

I am a CCNP R&S and CCNA Cyber Ops and so close to OSCP.

What would you do? Stay at the data center where probably SD network will be the direction OR regular network engineering where later on i could try the ccie OR go for cyber cybersecurity, which is the closest to my heart?

I am a little afriad of the cyber threat job, because probably it is just staring at various displays (which is boring AF) but if there is chance to grow and in 1-2 years doing some interesing jobs in a SOC (if there is...) then it worth the suffer...but i have to stop jumping from job to job.

What would be a reasonable decision here? What would you do guys? Any advice with a bit of reasons? (31 yrs old with family)



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