My infosec paradox
I am conscious to be a highly privileged human and worker. I live in a beautiful country with tons of social advantages, I'm well paid to sit behind a desk all day long, I'm not directly exposed to hate, discrimination,
war and other human atrocities. I love my job, because I learn new things every single day and because digging data to exhume and expose bad behaviours is so thrilling. I feel like I have no right to complain.
But I often feel that something is misisng. I feel like I'm working 8 hours a day for nothing. I'm not making anyone's life better by doing my job. Worst of all, our industy's main client sectors are often those that make tons of money and thus support capitalism and profit over everything even human rights, social justice and ecology.
Then, on an individual level, being exposed to an endless flow of data is exhausting. Every day comes with new technologies, new actors, new fraud scheme, new malware to learn about. While I learn with passion, sometimes it feels soooo pointless. I always feel a few steps behind. In addition, even if I work with great people, I sometimes feel trapped in a parallel world of complex machines and black magic protocols (yeah DNS, I'm looking at you) that nobody around me understand anything about. Sometimes I wish I had never been introduced to this world and I could stay in the true real world where people are.
Do you share similar feelings? How do you cope with them? Especially, if you have been in the field for a long time, how havr you managed not to say "I'm leaving to become a teacher or a goat herder in the countryside". If you are in an other field, I'm interested too, do you have similar feelings and questions? And don't forget: sharing is caring!
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