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Hello, I'm rearing near the end of my bachelors in cybersecurity and although I love networking and security, I find myself lost for where to go. I know I have valuable skills but my job market is full of grime. I'd rather work of geek squad turning off and on computers than find myself working for some crypto bro or god forbid the government. Half my courses were just putting me in the chair watching my teacher sloppy toppy AWS, Open AI or Cisco and I fear my education is railroading me into working for the institutions I'm opposed to. I want to use my degree justly. I still have time before I graduate and am looking for direction that wont seppuku my morals. Any and all advice is helpful.

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[โ€“] IdealisticGrubb@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the comment! My family has a lot of history in medicine and I like the idea of working to keep peoples medical data secure. Is my only option to work in that sector working for someone like Permera or a EMR company like Epic?

[โ€“] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean you can also work for your local hospital system, too, but sure those are all options, though you may find getting hired by them to be a bit difficult at first because your resume won't have tons of experience on it yet.

Keeping data secure, especially in the medical field overall, is paramount, so the IT-medical field does have a certain level of job security to it but I'd personally find it boring. I get why it's appealing on the surface however I'd recommended the MSP (managed service provider) space as a good career starting point because you'd get exposed to a fairly wide variety of industries and my logic was that you'd refine what you like about INFOSEC in the first year or 2 of working at the MSP while serving a wider audience's security needs and once you know what sub-specialty you're really into then go chase the bigger companies with a bit of experience "on paper".

That's just my $.02. :)