Ever think about how moonlighting could springboard your career to exceptional heights? Buckle up for a thrilling discussion about one of the least explored, career-enhancing strategies - moonlighting. We'll uncover the nuts and bolts of this concept and underline how it stands apart from conventional nine-to-five jobs. We'll highlight how savvy networking can open doors to invaluable experience, and why having a fire in your belly for your job is ever so crucial, especially in the high-stress, high-stakes world of security work.
In the latter half, we're going to connect the dots between moonlighting and self-training that could lead to career progression, productivity gains, and cutting costs. We're also going to dig into the importance of professional certifications like CISSP and CCSP in a fiercely competitive market. So tune in and let's explore how a small investment in yourself now, via moonlighting and gaining certifications, can pay dividends in the future.
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Speaker 1: How's it going?
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Everyone?
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This is another security unfiltered mentorship episode.
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So you know, last couple weeks I did not put an episode in,
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mostly because I forgot, because I was pretty sick the past
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couple weeks, even even now, you know, I may cough a little bit
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or need to clear my throat, you know, during this recording here
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, just like that.
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And you know I'm getting over whatever.
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It was a cold or whatever.
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But you know, I thought today would be a great time to
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actually just kind of talk about moonlighting and how to use it
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to take your career to the next level.
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Okay, so there's a lot of different kinds of moonlighting,
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you know, and I think that this is a topic that isn't really
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talked about.
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It's not discussed very often.
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You know, I never even heard the term moonlighting until I
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actually started doing it myself and someone else actually told
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me.
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You know that term and what it was and everything.
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You know.
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News to me, right?
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So let's just start with what it is.
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You know, moonlighting is basically anything that you're
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doing sort of work related or career related, outside of work
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hours, you know.
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So you weren't, you weren't assigned this.
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You're not doing it for your nine to five job or anything
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like that.
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You know this is something that you're doing to basically
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better yourself and, you know, get yourself into a different
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place in your career.
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You know, and often, often, I forget about this part in my
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career.
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You know, early on in my career everyone knows a story by now
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For two and a half years I worked at a help desk job.
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You know, I enjoyed the team, I didn't mind the work and whatnot
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, but it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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It wasn't cybersecurity, even though I was focused more on the
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security side of the house.
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It wasn't a security dedicated or security focused role.
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And so that's a huge, that's a huge difference, you know,
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between being in cybersecurity and not being in cybersecurity.
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And the opportunity came up, just through a friend, to
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actually be a security analyst for a small consulting firm out
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of the DC slash, virginia area.
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I would be in house security consultant.
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You know I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be, you know, client
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facing or anything like that.
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And I think the position was actually like security analyst.
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But to be completely honest with you, that was a stretch
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like that.
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That term, that title was a stretch for what a security
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analyst actually is, you know, and it doesn't really do a
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justice to be completely honest with you.
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But the title was security analyst and that's what mattered
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, and I'll tell you why that mattered, you know.
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So I did this job, you know, during my off hours, I mean
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literally I would go to work from eight to five.
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I'd get home by about 530, maybe six o'clock let's just
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call it six o'clock you know, monday through Friday, and I
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would eat.
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And by seven o'clock I'm clocking in to start working as
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a security analyst and I'm setting, I'm setting up, you
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know, different tools, setting up different solutions, alerting
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, monitoring, logging, all that sort of stuff, just getting my
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hands in different technologies.
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And this is also, this is also why it's important to network
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with people.
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You know, I knocked, I networked with someone at my
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current company, right, someone that not very many people
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befriended at that company, not many people liked even.
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But I befriended this person and he made the connection right
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when I, when I told him like hey, I want to get into security
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but I don't know how to do it and nothing's working for me, he
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immediately said, oh, I have a friend that has a security
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company.
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It's, you know, sock as a service.
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Back when, sock as a service was like a cutting edge, brand new
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thing.
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You know, very niche area.
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Not many places even knew about it.
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You know, when he put me in touch with him, right, and the
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opportunity overall was pretty poor, it was, it was actually
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pretty poor.
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You know, I wasn't making a huge amount of money.
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I wasn't making, you know, 80 grand, which is the typical
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salary of a security analyst.
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Nothing like that, I mean it was.
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It was hourly.
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I think I was making maybe $20 an hour, you know, something
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like that, like nothing crazy, but it was something right.
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You do notice that for sure it gives you some more spending
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money and whatnot.
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But I took that opportunity to really add that title to my
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resume and the importance of that is that I use that
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opportunity, that title, that light amount of experience, and
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I'm very open, you know, with people about what that
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opportunity was, what I did, what I didn't do, things like
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that.
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But I took that opportunity to add that to my resume and then
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it gave my resume more power, more validity when I'm applying
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to these security roles.
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It shows, hey, this person does have a security dedicated role.
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It's not his day job, he's doing it after hours.
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For someone to do that, they must really love it.
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You know, and it's coming out now, that the best security
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professionals are the ones that love it, the ones that you know
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actually want to be in this field.
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And the reason being is that security is literally it is so
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stressful at times, the work is so difficult at times that if
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you do not love it and you just love the paycheck, you're not
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going to last a bit very long.
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And if you do last in it you will be miserable.
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You will go home every day, you know, feeling relieved that you
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left that place right.
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And you know you will dread the morning when you're waking up,
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going to work.
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Like I've had jobs before where you know I have dreaded going
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to work.
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I mean, like I wake up that day and I'm literally like man,
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should I just call in sick?
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And you know you look down at the calendar and it's like, oh,
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it's Friday.
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This is literally the fifth day in a row where I was like can I
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call?
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Should I call in sick?
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You know that's a thing you know and it's not fun.
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And so if you go into security, you know, just because you want
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the money, because you want the paycheck right, whatever it
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might be, if you don't love it, you're going to find yourself in
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that situation and so moonlighting shows to other
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people you know, not only that you're capable of doing it, not
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only that you, you know, have that title or have some light
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experience, but that you love it .
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You know, and they feel more comfortable giving you the
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opportunity, knowing that you're going to probably love it,
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you're going to enjoy it and you're going to strive in it.
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Right, that's what people really want.
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But back then, back then, that wasn't really the mentality.
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The mentality was not oh, you have to love it to really be in
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it.
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It was like you know, you have to be in security to be in
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security.
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No, that was the mentality.
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There was no factor of drive or anything else like that.
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No one really cared.
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And so that's why I was such a like an outlier, you know, kind
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of, in the industry around me.
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Was that I really wanted it?
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You know, I really wanted to be in security.
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I really wanted to do everything that I possibly could
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to get into this field because it fit my mentality, it fit my
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personality, it fit you know how I think through problems, how I
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assess them.
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You know my thought process.
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It fit all of those things you know.
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It allowed me to be very analytical, look at problems
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from a holistic point of view, which is hard to find.
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You know, in a lot of careers and a lot of areas it's hard to
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find, especially if you don't become a doctor or a lawyer.
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You know if you're a doctor, lawyer, scientist, what other
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jobs are really going to have that opportunity to really
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challenge you.
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You know mentally in those ways , right, and that, look, I'm
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probably forgetting.
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You know 99% of the jobs that are like that, right, this is
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really more of a off the cuff, you know discussion with you
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guys talking about my path.
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Well, I bring that up because you know kind of twofold right.
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One, you take that opportunity to advance your career but you
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also take it to advance your skill set, to advance.
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You know your own knowledge of a topic and whatnot, and you
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don't have to know everything upfront going into it.
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You really don't.
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When I took that security analyst job, I didn't know
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anything.
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I mean I literally didn't know anything.
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You know I had my security plus certification at the time,
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which is a good foundation, but that is it.
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You know I did some security tasks and security you know work
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at my day job, but it wasn't the security analyst work or
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anything like that, and so I didn't know anything.
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I didn't know what I didn't know, and that's a huge thing.
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You know, that's where it catches a lot of people up, and
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I say this because you shouldn't let it catch you up, you
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shouldn't let it take over your mentality and affect your
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decision.
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Right this is something that I've talked about a lot on my
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podcast with my guests is the fact that you know you don't
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need to know everything, or you don't need to have everything on
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the job description ticked off in your resume, in your
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experience, in order for you to apply to that job.
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If you're a 50, a lot of people that I've talked to say that if
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you're at 50% of the requirements for that position
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and the job description, you should apply to it, because
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there's a lot of people out there that are realizing that
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really, the important stuff that they need from a candidate is
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maybe 50% of what they put on the job description.
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Anything above that is good to have, it's nice to have, it
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makes things a little bit easier , but it's not required.
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And the other 50% that this candidate may be lacking, they
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can absolutely, you know, train it up, they can absolutely fill
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those gaps and things like that, and so it's not a big deal.
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And so in this situation of moonlighting, you know, it was
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extremely beneficial for me to suck it up and do that job.
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Now I think, if I remember right , I think this opportunity only
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lasted maybe nine months.
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Maybe nine months.
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It wasn't too crazy long, but it was just enough to give me
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that line on the resume that allowed me to get in the door
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somewhere else as a full-time security engineer, which is my
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goal, and you know I want to bring it.
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I bring that up because even now, you know, I'm about 10
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years into this career, I'm still doing it now.
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I'm still doing different moonlighting opportunities and
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sorry, like I'm struggling through recovering from a cold,
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but I'm struggling, or I'm still going through different
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moonlighting opportunities.
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You know it could be something like a virtual see-saw.
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Could be this podcast, even right.
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This podcast has opened up doors I never would have
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expected Could be being an adjunct professor.
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It could be creating course content for Infosec Institute
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that recently got bought out by Cengage I can't say their name,
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cengage.
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Whatever it could be doing that you know, it could be getting
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certifications, you know, in my opinion, moonlighting can also
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be your own training in the career.
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Right, so it could be you, you know, going out of your way
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studying for a certification.
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You know, setting that goal, setting a deadline and then
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working to achieve it.
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You know and I say this because there's it seems like it seems
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like there is a huge debate going on among the millionaires
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out there that are saying that if you're still working from
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home and you don't want to return to the office, you've
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been cheating, you've been stealing, you've been doing
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something wrong, which is maybe the most incorrect statement
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I've ever heard, maybe the most that anyone could ever tell you
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about your career.
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You know, working from home has enabled me to be significantly
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more productive for my nine to five, significantly more
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productive.
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When I was in the office, I was spending time talking to people
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about shit that I didn't need to be talking to them about
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around the water cooler, in the cafeteria, wherever it was.
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I'd worked in the office for maybe two actual hours a day,
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right, maybe, okay, and I know everyone's going to say, oh,
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that sounds terrible, that's really bad.
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You know this and that, right, you're being pulled into
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meetings.
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You know you're being pulled into other conversations about
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different topics.
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So is it really, hands on keyboard, I'm actually
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engineering something, I'm actually building something or
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doing whatever?
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No, I'm actually in these meetings, you know physically,
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and you know addressing whatever issues are coming up.
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Now that I'm at home, you know we can fire up a team's meeting,
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right, that's scheduled for an hour.
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This is a perfect example.
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Today, teams call scheduled for an hour.
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We got through it in 20 minutes .
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We got off the call, I went straight into with, literally
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without leaving my desk.
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I went straight into my consoles and started working on
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the projects that I have to deliver by the end of the year,
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which actually, mind you, I am ahead of schedule.
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I'm significantly ahead of schedule on those projects.
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If I was in the office, I would probably be, you know, not not
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ahead of schedule, I'll tell you that much.
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Definitely not a schedule, but it's a joke.
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It's a joke that these millionaires and billionaires
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are trying to tell us now is that we're cheating, you know,
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ourselves.
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We're cheating the company.
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We're cheating them Because we're working from home, right,
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because they can't rationalize spending billions of dollars on
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real estate To house all their employees and they want to have
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that asset as a write-off in their companies.
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You know accounting at the end of the year, and that's
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essentially what it is.
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You know, like, that's the game.
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You know, like, if I rented an office building or a you know
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just an office space For this podcast, right, I could write it
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all off.
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I got to write off a hundred percent of it, basically, and
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you know, declare it as losses and things like that, right,
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because it's the cost of doing business.
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Oh, I have to have this office, you know it's.
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It's all a game, you know, and I'm not, I'm not Knocking them
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for playing the game, right, it's a game.
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You need to know the rules.
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This is the real world, right, if you don't know the rules and
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you don't know it's a game, you're gonna lose no matter what
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.
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But the opportunity of working remote provides more value to
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the company.
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It actually does it.
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It enables me to do the work that I want to do, enables me to
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actually be happier, because now I get to spend more time
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with my family.
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That's brand new, brand new family.
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I get to spend more time with my brand new family.
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And While I'm doing that, right , right, right, after hours,
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there's no one hour commute home or 90 minute commute home, I
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can get right into studying for different certifications and
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different skill sets that I need to obtain to be more effective
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in my nine to five.
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So please, someone tell me, someone, please educate me as to
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how I'm cheating a, a multi-billion dollar company.
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You know, like that's the craziest thing to me, that that
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I've heard in a long time.
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You know, it's just absurd to think like that, that that
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you're stealing Because you're remote.
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It's like I can see if you're working two, three, four
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full-time jobs, right, and you're not telling any of your
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employers about the other employer and you're making, you
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know, three, four times the salary, right, and you know,
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mind you, when you do that, other things are gonna be
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dropped off off of these other jobs and you're gonna be
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juggling it a lot more than you would actually think.
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That's now right.
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In my opinion.
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That's not right.
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That's not fair to that company especially.
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You know, if you're, if you're literally working the security
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engineering role and you're nine to five and maybe it's a little
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bit of a slower season You're not doing that much and then you
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get another full-time, remote job as a security engineer Maybe
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it's not even the same industry or whatnot as your as your
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first nine to five, but it's still a security engineer role
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and you're working that role at this other company.
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That's kind of shitty, you know .
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That's not something, that's not something that I would do,
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that's not something that I have done, that's not something I
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would advocate for.
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You know, the the work that you're doing at these
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moonlighting Opportunities has to be different from what you're
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nine five is because you need to be using that as a stepping
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stone To your next role, to your next goal.
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That's a really good way of actually doing it.
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That a lot of people, I Think they forget about it, they don't
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talk about it.
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You know, this is the first time, and maybe ever, that you
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know I've heard someone talk about it, right, and so it kind
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of just hit me and I was like, oh, I need to talk about this
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because I've actually done this in my career To get me to that
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next level.
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That seemed to be unobtainable, unsurmountable, you know.
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And as soon as I did this moonlighting thing, put in a
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little bit more effort.
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Yes, guess what, I was more tired, I got less sleep, but it
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was all worth it in the long run .
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So you know, I just wanted to to bring that up.
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And you know, again, moonlighting is not necessarily
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Working an entirely separate job .
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It literally could be you studying for a certification.
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You know these things.
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For me, it's really whatever Goes into making you a better
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professional in your career field.
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That's what that is.
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So you know, I just wanted to talk about that because you know
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I've also I've also seen a lot of you know videos start popping
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up on YouTube talking about You're you're cheating your
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employer by working from home.
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You know that's that's the most frustrating thing, right for me,
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because it's like, you know, probably 95% of the people that
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are moonlighting.
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They're doing it because they want to provide a better life
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For their family, they want to advance their career.
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You know they want to make, they want to do better overall,
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and for me, in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with that.
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You know, if, if you have no ill intentions, you know, and
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you don't want to, you know, harm anyone or harm the company
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that you're working for, anything like that, then there
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should be no issue.
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And you know it's like these people are out of touch.
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You know, because I'm sure some of them Did this earlier on in
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their career where they were working.
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You know, two jobs are doing multiple things trying to get to
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where they are today.
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It just doesn't make any sense to me, you know, honestly, like,
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at the end of the day, I think the whole push to go back into
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the office, in my opinion, is Really just so that they can
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rationalize.
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You know, spending the money utilizing the real estate that
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they invested in, that's turning into a liability, used to be an
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asset, and now they're debating about getting rid of it, you
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know, and they don't want to get that asset off of their, off of
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their P&L, and that's what it is, you know, in my opinion,
00:23:55
that's what it is, because, you know people want to say oh
00:24:00
You're, you're missing out on the water cooler talks.
00:24:03
You know, you're missing out on promotions Because of these
00:24:08
water cooler talks.
00:24:09
You know, whatever, whatever, that is right, and I think,
00:24:13
though, that's absolute BS.
00:24:17
You know, when I start a fully remote job, when I start a new
00:24:21
one, a fully remote job, the very first thing I do for the
00:24:25
first 90 days is I'm meeting with all of my Managers, peers,
00:24:32
and I'm meeting with all of their managers.
00:24:35
So I'm meeting with directors, vps, I'm meeting with other, you
00:24:40
know, managers.
00:24:41
All of these people are the teams that I will be working
00:24:46
with.
00:24:46
They own these teams.
00:24:47
So I'm building that relationship and then I have
00:24:51
monthly touch bases with all of them.
00:24:53
Like, hey, how can I help you?
00:24:55
You know what areas are you struggling with?
00:24:58
What areas do you need more help with?
00:25:00
How can I actually help you and make your life easier?
00:25:04
So that replaces the water cooler talk, right, and that's a
00:25:11
quick 30 minutes.
00:25:12
Maybe a monthly, maybe a quarterly call, where you know
00:25:17
you're just reaching out seeing if you can help them in some way
00:25:20
.
00:25:20
That's all that.
00:25:22
That is that replaces the hour that I'm spending at the water
00:25:27
cooler over, you know, an entire week, so to speak.
00:25:31
You know, talking to these people to get a promotion.
00:25:36
That's BS, in my opinion.
00:25:39
That is BS, you know.
00:25:42
I know CISOs that are fully remote and and there's no need
00:25:47
for them to to go back into the office and their companies are
00:25:52
trying to order everyone back into the office and you know
00:25:57
these CISOs are telling their security teams like, hey,
00:26:00
everyone else is going to go back into the office.
00:26:02
This doesn't apply to you, because they know if they don't
00:26:07
offer these benefits, right, If they don't give these benefits
00:26:11
to their security team, their security team is literally just
00:26:13
going to go somewhere else because, literally, the last
00:26:18
time I checked, I think there's a five million headcount
00:26:22
shortage in cybersecurity.
00:26:24
Literally there's five million roles more than what there are
00:26:29
actually in the profession.
00:26:31
And so in security, literally the stat is, I think it's 99%,
00:26:39
98 or 99% of people employed in cybersecurity are Switching jobs
00:26:47
rather than getting laid off or fired and then finding another,
00:26:52
another job or, you know, quitting without having another
00:26:57
job lined up.
00:26:58
98 or 99% are just switching jobs.
00:27:03
You know so like they're working and then they put in
00:27:06
their two weeks notice and then they go to another job.
00:27:08
So they're not on them, they're not unemployed for a certain
00:27:11
amount of time, they're just going from one job to another.
00:27:15
That shows you that cybersecurity professionals are
00:27:20
still in very high demand and that's not going away.
00:27:24
You know that's not changing anytime soon.
00:27:27
There's literally five million open roles more than the Amount
00:27:32
of professionals that we have in the field.
00:27:37
You know, I, the best way to get into security is to start
00:27:41
getting the certifications that no one else wants to get.
00:27:43
To be quite honest with you, you know I was a little bit
00:27:46
stunned with this stat.
00:27:48
I've looked up how many people in America I think it was
00:27:53
America that have the CCSP, csp certification right, the the
00:28:01
certified cloud security Professional or practitioner or
00:28:05
whatever it is.
00:28:06
I have it.
00:28:07
So you would think I would know what it is, but it's ISC
00:28:13
squared cloud version of the CISSP.
00:28:16
Essentially, there's only five thousand people in America that
00:28:21
have that certification.
00:28:22
That certification is growing in demand.
00:28:25
I can tell that it's growing in demand because more on more and
00:28:30
more job applications You're seeing CISSP or CCSP on cloud
00:28:36
security and architect roles.
00:28:39
The reason being is that people are seeing oh, not everyone has
00:28:44
a CISSP.
00:28:45
Well, the next best thing CCSP that fits more with the cloud.
00:28:51
We can use that.
00:28:52
But there's only 5 of us roughly that have this
00:28:59
certification in North America or in America.
00:29:02
And then if you look at the CISSP, that number is not
00:29:08
dramatically higher.
00:29:09
I thought it would be millions, I think when I checked it was
00:29:14
like 50, which is insane because the CISSP has been
00:29:20
around for like 20 years.
00:29:22
At this point.
00:29:22
It's been around for 20 years.
00:29:24
I think the CISSP has been around for six or seven years,
00:29:28
something like that.
00:29:29
Don't quote me, I don't know how long these things have been
00:29:34
around, but I know CISSP has been around significantly longer
00:29:39
than the CISSP.
00:29:40
I would have thought more people had them, and so how you
00:29:45
get these roles is getting those certifications that not many
00:29:49
other people have.
00:29:50
When you're getting them, you think everyone has them and you
00:29:54
see them on all these job descriptions and you probably
00:29:56
see them on people on LinkedIn, their profile and whatnot.
00:30:00
Those are the minority.
00:30:00
Those are not the majority.
00:30:02
Those are the minority.
00:30:04
This is something that I'm learning myself, but that should
00:30:09
add a little bit of fire in you to actually go out there and
00:30:13
moonlight and learn new skills, go after new certifications,
00:30:17
make the changes that you need to make so that yourself, in 10
00:30:21
years, will thank the old self for making those sacrifices.
00:30:26
All right, guys, that's all that I have for this episode.
00:30:30
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
00:30:31
I hope it helps someone out there.
00:30:33
Go out there and make a difference.
00:30:37
All right, see you guys.
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