Top 5 Reasons Not to Become a Cyber Security professional

Very true

Mil people going to a MSSP get driven crazy with the lack of structure.....

Great video. Thank you sir

One of the best videos to take a career decision. Honest, Practical, non-commercial and highly empathetic.

Thank you very for your advices. You really helped me with my learning path!

I love learning and I love doing courses, programming, and ctfs but I realized it’s not for me. I’m a criminology major, I used to love doing ctfs but I realized I’m still not able to grasp an understanding to where I can find bugs in bounty programs other than informational. I’m really good at finding things that people don’t see but I can’t seem to understand how to find xss vulnerabilities unless I know there is a vulnerability. Another thing as you mentioned in your video, there isn’t much of structure in cybersecurity and it can be chaotic. As someone who doesn’t like the unexpected and kinda struggles with criticism, this would be bad news for me 😂. Finally, I’m a criminology major with an information system minor. No employers are looking to hire a criminology major without experience nor certifications like sec+ if I don’t have experience with desk work. I also don’t have a TS clearance nor am eligible for the military due to health. Very few options. It would take me a long time to break into cybersecurity, let alone feel like I belong. There are so many more people who are better than me and I’m not as smart as them in skill not iq. No matter how hard I’ve tried, the only jobs I’ve qualified for were in 911 dispatch and it’s like a slap to the face on wasting time in college on my major. Something I’m passionate about but doesn’t pay nor support. In all, I’m 21. About to get my Bach. I’m a dishwasher. Took me 3 years to get my Bach but my gpa is 2.8 because of 3 Cs and 2 Ds out of 5 semesters.Programmed a few applications and done a lot of research yet I can only get an under qualified job. I may ramble a bit here but I don’t have a family and never want my own family. I don’t need support someone so I’m not looking for money. I will be competing against people who have a family, higher gpa, healthy, and more experience. College degrees aren’t much alone either

Nice video! Tks for that 😊

Hi, I've been working in customer support for the past 8 years and I really don't have any technical knowledge. Can I make a career in cyber security? How do I start? I would really appreciate your suggestion.

I've grown addicted to your videos

I've grown addicted to your videos

I am going from being a Paramedic with 33 years in service along with volunteer firefighter, reserve police officer for 20 years and medico-legal death investigator for 8 years. A nice office job sounds good to me. I am in college now for a degree in cybersecurity. The reason I chose that is that my back is about done and I need to still keep a roof over my head. Cybersecurity seems a natural fit with my background. That and I like the thoughts of being able to hunt bad guys online.

Hi. I have passion for cyber security and want to learn it to the best. Can you be my mentor???

Currently pursuing my cyber security degree

I've already committed myself to doing COMPTIA A+, Network+, Security+ and CySA through a company and am paying off the loan
I wish i came across your videos before committing to this journey, maybe then I'd have done the Google/Microsoft certs instead as thry seem a lot more affordable and are practical
I just have to get through the COMPTIA certs now since I'm already in too deep...
Attempting my core 1 exam retake this month,
Keep up the great content, very useful for people thinking about entering the industry

One thing that bothers me about my interest in CS is maths. Do I need to be good in maths? A lot of people would say I don’t need to know this and that just like I was told when I started learning JavaScript 🤦🏻‍♀️ but I need a honest opinion from someone in CS so I can start learning basics I need for CS at least.

Do I need to be very good with maths? Are there anything related to math in EH? Thank you in advance 😊

I consider money as pat on the back .... can we make enough money on average in their field?

I felt in love with this path because I'm a person who's obsessed with how things works and how to fix things

Kevin mednick was more into a hardware hacker and social engineering and not into software . I think Snowden is smarter

I am currently an HVAC technician I'm getting ready to start online classes through NC State college for cybersecurity It's a 13-month program and the last 2 months are class for setting up for the test for certifications is this a good route to go to get in the cybersecurity and as far as jobs go it seems like the ones I've looked in my area or in general always want experience how far does that schooling go for experience to get you you know in the door I guess it would be an entry level type thing thank you

I'm not gonna lie; I started because of Hackers and Mr. Robot. Thankfully, I enjoy both excitement and boredom. I also enjoy money.....

I don't have any programming knowledge but i want to study cyber security course . How much programming knowledge it needs to study cyber security?

Already got stressed with the 2nd red flag 😂 i like to go home and chill from work day. Great video!

Great video 🎉

thank you for all your videos. In one weekend I saw 90% of your videos. Helped you can´t imagine how much. Greetings from Paraguay, South America

Sounds like cyber is more intense than software engineers, if you have to beg for more things to learn and endless certs and the work is unorganised. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

In india we get scolded on 98%, A grade doesnt even matter here, parents will still ask you where did the remaining 2% go

Yup this job IS for me

Yea, Kevin Mitnick is legend .. remind on how we try to operate Beige Box ..

Please suggest some cybersecurity course or university for cybersecurity in Australia

I became a nurse because I was influenced by Grey's Anatomy and I really thought there where alot of sex in closet rooms. I became very good at what I do and have been the senior scrub scout in most specialties and at one point head of orthopaedics but all I experienced where abusive egotistical doctors. That's why I'm here. And yeah, still had no kinkies in stockrooms.

I am 43 yrs old. Is it very late being cyber security. I am working on QA engineer.

this was a great video. ive been in cyber security for almost 9 years and i can say that it is not truly me. i found that i actually enjoy software development more, after writing programs for fun. but actually what you said in the end is even more true. dont work for the salary. thats the mistake i made because i lived in such an expensive place. but i ended up hating my jobs and my life. i actually was thinking about when you mentioned medical field, how i should have gone to med school to become a plastic surgeon. or even law enforcement. cyber security is just not me

MashaAllah...you are a highly talented individual with strong passion and experience in your chosen IT field (Cybersec)

So what if we become unethical hacker !! 💀💀

Question:

Is it ok to proceed directly to google cybersecurity professional cert + comptia security+ without any certification on network+/ccna and A+?

Youre response will be very much appreciated guys.

Im an IT grad btw but didnt get the chance to take any experience 😅

I'm not well versed in IT... Decades in supply chain line with graduate diploma and in deep thinking whether to continue my degree in supply chain or switch line to cyberscurity with zero experience.. I love and find it fun learning something new.. Exciting... So should I forsake my degree in supply chain and just pursue cyberscurity dips and higher instead? I'm used to not getting praise for doing good job, so I don't mind😂
I don't mind learning things😂, I don't mind doing repetitive things because logistics line is a daily monthly thing😂
So I really wanted to change line... Advise please...

Thank you for being one of the realest in the field who creates content. I've seen some people post videos titled "Start Your Cybersecurity Career in 7 days," "Start Your $200k+ Cybersecurity Career," "Break Into Cybersecurity with 0 Experience," "Break Into Tech Without Certs of Coding Skills," etc. Although it's certainly not impossible, it's basically a bunch of click-bait titles followed by some bullshit advice on video, and it's sad to see how many people think they can get into cybersecurity with little to no effort, and how many people focus on the salary without knowing the amount of hard work it will take to get to that point.

I love how you give real life examples of people's experience in the industry, both good and bad. One of my favorites is your video talking about digital forensics, and how a colleague of yours wasn't able to handle the type of stuff you get to see doing digital forensics, basically saying that it's not for everyone. That's the honest reality and you're one of the few who tells it like it is, thank you for that.

the special thing about you that you give us a realistic experience so be always like that

Damn everything you’re saying you need to be I’m not but I wanna see for myself 😅

I passed 4 out of 5 of your barriers! And now I know that I must be even more prepared for upcoming struggleful career, especially for a 3rd world country graduate from different field.

I always liked cybersecurity, since I was young I was learning about malware and different attacks, I have some knowledge but its been so many years since I haven't seen or read anything about cybersecurity. I'm thinking of starting again with the google certification. Do you think this is a nice cert to start with? I just finished a fullstack development bootcamp, and I kinda don't know if go all in into cybersecurity or keep going for web development. I enjoy both but still trying to figure it out

Sir could you tell which text book of cyber security and hacker I have to start
In my beginning cyber security journey

Sir please could you tell me which laptop good to cyber security student
Please explain to me with deep details ?
thank you.

RIP Kevin

I love you

I would say that it is one of the channels with the best information and quality, I admire the time you take to answer all the messages, I am 32 years old and I have been studying on my own for a year, programming fundamentals and other concepts, I went through the web, mobile, backend with Java, but nothing suits me, and suddenly I found this branch which interests me a lot and I am already with Python, it even made me want to study a technical degree at the university, if you were to compare a developer with a software analyst security, who do you think will have more action? With large-scale technological advances, I think that although many developers will be needed, I think that security analysts will be even greater, specifically in the cloud, tomorrow all the information will be there, and taking into account that information and data is the most precious and valuable thing in this world, it will be one of the best roles.

There is talk of a sub-branch of developers, which already start with security in their projects, and on the other hand, AI is another barrier for security analysts, do you think it is an area for many many years? or could easily be replaced, I need your opinion to face the biggest life project that is to study and dedicate myself 100%, thank you!

Network, Sec+, Linux, Coding, and a degree, good base right? It's my idea.

I dont really understand the concept of cyber security is it just sitting on a computer all day and look for any cyber criminal's or does it involve the study of programming languages (I am a 12 year old and I have intrest in programming and stuff, I just wana know about this job to see if its worth it for me)

I work in a highly audited and standardized industry. Every work object comes with input and output documents. The structure helps a lot with my attention disorder symptoms. It's nice to keep security in context, it's not really something that I want a career out of.

Poor audio 😢