I get asked for advice a lot, and I don’t know what to say. I feel like a fraud. Yes, I climbed ranks since, but I have had a lifetime of scaffolding since birth. I had a T1 line to my house. My dad was an aerospace PM. Mom a childhood speech therapist. It shouldn’t be the model.
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(Back in the 90s it was a very profitable endeavor to hire a T1 line to your house and charge local businesses for web hosting. It paid for itself, but of course required large investment from my parents to bring it in. A lot of money seems to be like that. Have to have it first)
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My message is confused here, but I’m trying to say: Your idols in high places, even with their merit, are not superhuman. You cannot perceive how wide industry skillsets you work in are. What you think is basic knowledge, they know nothing. Don’t be intimidated. Rush the field.
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I talk with Windows Hacking Gods, who are basically geniuses in my view, and they don’t know the first things about the Group Policy errata that fixes what they’re talking about. The structured model of linear job development/skill trees is a ridiculous fraud. We all contribute.
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I worked in basically the SAME JOB FOR 10 YEARS NEVER ASKING FOR A RAISE because I thought I was a worthless idiot who could never matter because I couldn’t run metasploit without watching YouTube videos on unpatched XP boxes. You might assume I actually know anything about that.
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(Also, job reviews are often 100% bullshit even if they’re done by someone you respect and know cares about you. What you don’t know is they’re required to give you low scores so you don’t get a raise/ask for a promotion.)
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A previous supervisor literally left work, drove to my apartment, and woke me up, worried I was hurt since I had never missed work before. I had just missed my alarm and my phone was on silent. He cared about me. I still got crap reviews. I didn’t realize this at all until later.
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(I got rated a 3/5 on my Knowledge category after previously getting a 5/5. Then I got a new job that paid double+ and Microsoft MVP award for client management within 3 months, if you want to know how real that review bullshit is.)
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En réponse à @SwiftOnSecurity
I got fired by someone who couldn’t describe a single fundamental principle of my job!
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @SwiftOnSecurity
. . . See now if I didn't know you played the sportsball & only saw that one tweet I would just assume you were in tech :)
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“I’m expected to be perfect 100% of the time, people only notice when I screw up, none of my bosses have ever understood what it is that I actually do, outside observers think they could jump up off the couch and do my job.” Infosec or Punter?
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