SwiftOnSecurityAug 25, 2023
IT career advice:
The tools you already have do a LOT more than your company uses them for. Often products are purchased to do ONE thing. Tools need both a motivated admin + one with time.
Learn what you already own and master it. I see this CONSTANTLY. Volunteer responsibility.
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I even STARTED my career being skeptical of the governance of an antivirus solution. And it was far worse than I thought when I got access. Nobody was administering it because nobody was interested.
I've jumped upwards in experience, by gaining responsibility nobody else wanted.
Aug 25, 2023 at 9:48pmWeb
Show threadIPmongerAug 25, 2023
@SwiftOnSecurity This is an extremely effective “shortcut” to career progression. Intentionally choosing this can be powerful, but you need to remain intentional in your decisions to *not* volunteer as well to maintain a course you have chosen for your growth.
Show threadTobyAug 26, 2023
@SwiftOnSecurity Just being the one person willing to read the error message goes a long way.
Show threadTupcakesAug 26, 2023
@SwiftOnSecurity I did that with sharepoint 2010 back in the day. It definitely helped my career, but at what cost?
Show threadSkattrdAug 26, 2023
@SwiftOnSecurity My entire 40-year career (now retired) as a Sysadmin and subsequently Infosec Engineer was a sequence of “Hey, this is interesting, it clearly should be done, doing so would solve other problems, and nobody’s doing it so let me get that figured out for you.” Near career end I started butting heads with management who barely appreciated all of the various things that I actually did (which people other than my management appreciated very much), but somehow wanted me to be more focused on what they thought I *should* be doing. Sort of a sit-down-and-shut-up situation.