Swift⬡nSecurity

A lot of hiring advice seems to dance around being frank and saying that hiring is in no way fair or meritocratic. We need to address facts head-on, and how to cope with that. I got my first job with connections help from my dad, despite the interview. I shamefully leave that out

It also involves us inspecting our own hiring pipelines and fixing them. Frankly, I’ve been neglectful in giving feedback on open positions and how they’re worded, even if they’re way better than normal.

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.

(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)

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.

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.

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.