Lesley Carhart 
Cybersecurity Reddit is devolving between mid career IT with certs saying only degrees are getting hired and grads saying only certs and experience are getting hired - and I’m sorry but this is late stage capitalist hell, comrades. Only people with degrees plus experience and certs are getting hired
Of course when HR gets 400 qualified applicants for every entry level IT job they start cranking the requirement levers up to 11 in every area. There’s no financial incentive for them not to. Especially since the death of acknowledging talent from diverse backgrounds in America.
(Oh no not straight white dude nerds on Reddit not realizing their non traditional cybersecurity education is also diversity…)
Martin Seeger@hacks4pancakes I always tell people:
- You may be disabled and not even know it
- You may be part of a minority you never heard about
- You are a stranger nearly everywhere
Hubert Figuière@masek @hacks4pancakes also "you may be too old". ageism is rampant.
@hub @hacks4pancakes Yeah, something like:
- You will be "too old" very soon
Analog AI@masek @hub @hacks4pancakes I once had a boss once tell me "I was too old to learn new things." Same boss who told me my code was fixing too many bugs, was too different for the rest of the team to learn (!!!) (also, not true), and tried to give me a bad review and then dismiss me without an action plan. Found myself locked out one morning (without warning); after security checked into it for half an hour or so they reactivated my badge. Boss never mentioned it, I found out from HR (while they were deflecting complaints about said boss).
@Retreival9096 Pro tip: Mention your retirement often, ask them to plan for it (including replacement) and get them to dread it 😄.