6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread

[Panther]

as much as i think roe vs wade being rescinded is terrible, one thing thats been making me shake my head is the increasing amount of very personal stories ppl are sharing regarding abortion..on linkedin ..like thats not what i want to see on linkedin...at all

I seen one today too... I wish i could turn the posts off its insufferable

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

as much as i think roe vs wade being rescinded is terrible, one thing thats been making me shake my head is the increasing amount of very personal stories ppl are sharing regarding abortion..on linkedin ..like thats not what i want to see on linkedin...at all

I mentioned some months ago, people use LinkedIn for virtue signaling now more than anything.

 

[patscorpio]

I mentioned some months ago, people use LinkedIn for virtue signaling now more than anything.

pure facts

 

[Rawtid]

I'm definitely leaving this place, but after my meeting yesterday I realize it doesn't have to be a rush like the way I originally felt. September was my goal to find a second role, but now it's either to get out and/or find an additional.

It's funny because I outlined a bunch to areas I wanted to focus on regarding overall strategy around analytics, such as a standardized approach to design and visual experience depending on the type of dashboard, then the use of enterprise defined variables, data dictionaries, etc. Oddly enough this heifer has put it on the list for HER to tackle (she will keep me in the loop), but "assured" me there will be plenty of dashboards I will need to build.

When I interviewed, the plan was never to be a dashboard factory, I mean you only have 4 data sources so it's only but so many dashboards you can build anyway. This is screaming assembly line and I wanted strategy. Still focusing on the PMP and Qlik Data architect certs though.

Edit:
Some Women in leadership low key make me sick. You run your mouth in our one on one's about how the dudes are going about shyt the wrong way, then get right in their faces, smiling and supporting the wrong way. SAY SOMETHING!! You said something in our meeting...you had mad ideas. Want me to say something?

 

[JLova]

Employers across the country are preparing to slash pay for home workers

Employers across the country are preparing to slash pay for home workers as part of radical plans that could ignite a widespread backlash among staff.

uk.yahoo.com

It was ony matter of time before these pieces of shyt who just want to micromanage, breath down everyone's necks and control their staff got their little revenge by slashing pay. People are struggling to survive with the cost of living which is literally through the roof right now but these megalomaniac dinosaurs and control freaks still would rather pay hundreds of thousands on offices and overheads that aren't really needed just to get people behind desks. FOH.

We knew this was happening. All about leverage. Companies didn’t have much and just needed people to work and were willing to make a lot of concessions. All those tears about needing people to work and how they cared about safety blah blah blah all bullshyt. The employers have the leverage now and will start using it.

A good opportunity for advanced, forward thinking companies to swoop in and secure top talent.

 

[JLova]

as much as i think roe vs wade being rescinded is terrible, one thing thats been making me shake my head is the increasing amount of very personal stories ppl are sharing regarding abortion..on linkedin ..like thats not what i want to see on linkedin...at all

Bruh, I’m reading all this shut in my feed about people having multiple anortions and shyt. Even say some people shytting on white women. shyt is basically Facebook now.

 

[Serious]

I'm definitely leaving this place, but after my meeting yesterday I realize it doesn't have to be a rush like the way I originally felt. September was my goal to find a second role, but now it's either to get out and/or find an additional.

It's funny because I outlined a bunch to areas I wanted to focus on regarding overall strategy around analytics, such as a standardized approach to design and visual experience depending on the type of dashboard, then the use of enterprise defined variables, data dictionaries, etc. Oddly enough this heifer has put it on the list for HER to tackle (she will keep me in the loop), but "assured" me there will be plenty of dashboards I will need to build.

When I interviewed, the plan was never to be a dashboard factory, I mean you only have 4 data sources so it's only but so many dashboards you can build anyway. This is screaming assembly line and I wanted strategy. Still focusing on the PMP and Qlik Data architect certs though.

Edit:
Some Women in leadership low key make me sick. You run your mouth in our one on one's about how the dudes are going about shyt the wrong way, then get right in their faces, smiling and supporting the wrong way. SAY SOMETHING!! You said something in our meeting...you had mad ideas. Want me to say something?

My job is dashboard heavy as well.

I don’t mind it. I write a few simple queries then create a dashboard then I’m straight.


I have a shyt ton of free time.

Now I’m like @Obreh Winfrey where I have weeks where I don’t really do shyt

I use this free time to sleep. But now I’ve started looking for another potential gig to increase my income.


Side bar: Indeed is trash. Basically Craigslist status. LinkedIn is the way to go.

 

[Panther]

Day 3 at the new gig, I forgot how lovely not being client facing is
No cameras in 99% of meetings, a brotha and a sista on my team and I can start at 7 am
This role will help improve my skills with excel, & provide exposure to Oracle

 

[Serious]

Day 3 at the new gig, I forgot how lovely not being client facing is
No cameras in 99% of meetings, a brotha and a sista on my team and I can start at 7 am
This role will help improve my skills with excel, & provide exposure to Oracle

I haven’t turned on my company laptop on all week.

I damn sure ain’t turning it on for meetings.

Most of my team probably don’t even know I’m black.

 

[LiquidMasterSwords]

I don't post here very often if at all so I'd thought I'd basically share my story because I'm bored at work.

I was working in Operations over 2 years ago. My old manager from my first job IT job offered me a Cyber Security Analyst position at this new spot they were building from the ground up. He remembered my work ethic and thought I'd be perfect. I told him I don't have any certs or any background in CS but he said I wouldn't need it. I knew I reached my peak at my current position so I took it. Everything was going great, the Engineers taught me a lot, I was just doing level 1 stuff like monitor security tools, did slight searches in Splunk. Used Crowdstrike for malware analysis. Used tenable.io, mimecast for phishing purposes. Recategorize/unblock URLs. VERY SIMPLE STUFF right? Everyone looked out for me and my training. Then my manager got promoted...

I was given a new manager and in our very first meeting he changed my job completely. I went to Risk Analyst. I was in a team of two people now. My coworker was the Head of IT wife. She also was a student of my new manager. Nepotism at it's finest. This lady was completely useless, I had to teach her how to copy and paste a URL into a spreadsheet. I'm serious. I had no former training for this position and was thrown in head first. This job was absolutely the worst and what made it bad is every time I was clueless about something I would have to go to my boss and ask for help. He had the worst attitude with me. Eventually they kept giving me more and more Risk related task to do. I was fed up and felt like I was placed in a position to fail. So I asked my manager why did they move me from CS to Risk? And this nikka said, because I didn't have a Security+ Cert. (liar)

That Friday they held a meeting with me and my coworker and told me I would be in charge of managing ServiceNow next week. I had no experience or training. They told my coworker she would be my backup but she didn't really have to help or attend meetings if she didn't want to. I was beyond fed up. I thought the weekend would cool me off but it didn't. I called HR on Sunday and resigned, told them to not expect me on Monday. Straight up quit.

This was late November 2021, I had more than enough in savings to hold me over. I went on Indeed, Glassdoor etc and looked up the requirements for jobs I wanted to do and just kept counting. In first place was Security+ in second was CEH in third was CISSP, after that was CySA, CISM, CISA and CASP. So I studied and got my Security+ by late January, took me two tries. I went back looking for jobs thinking I was the shyt now cause I had a cert. That was not the case. A lot of jobs in my area require a Security Clearance. It was tough having less than a year of cybersecurity experience and no clearance. So I took a position that was less than aka a step back in my career. They are getting me a clearance though! Right now I have my interim clearance to do my job but probably won't have my full security clearance FOR A WHILE, last guy said it took them a year. I'm also in a scif so... no phone. So I sit here and I study. I got my CEH next. So now the day I get my clearance I'm OUT OF HERE lol. No offense but this place (while cool) is beneath me.

Anyway, that old manager fired me up. It was the ultimately I took that personal meme. I feel by this time next year I'll have at least 3-4 certs AND a clearance. I took my old gaming PC out the closet and started using it as a home lab. Nothing serious at all but just to keep my mind in the cyber security space. 6 figures, 6 certs, 6 feet here I come! Lol

TLDR; Got a CS job then got moved to Risk. Manager was an ass. I quit. Studied. Getting my certs up and the future looks bright.

 

[Rawtid]

My job is dashboard heavy as well.

I don’t mind it. I write a few simple queries then create a dashboard then I’m straight.


I have a shyt ton of free time.

Now I’m like @Obreh Winfrey where I have weeks where I don’t really do shyt

I use this free time to sleep. But now I’ve started looking for another potential gig to increase my income.


Side bar: Indeed is trash. Basically Craigslist status. LinkedIn is the way to go.

I'd be cool with it, if I knew for sure it wouldn't bite me in the ass eventually or whoever lands in my position. You're a global company with mad employees, 100's of dashboards that 3 or 4 people per department are using God forbid trying to create an SOP, document changes or even maintain things properly.

When you only have a few data sources you build one comprehensive dashboard and use admin functionality of the product to limit users to the data they need to see. If they change a fieldname at the source, you make one update in one place, not the same update across 30 dashboards.

Efficiency makes everyone's job easier, especially when people are leaving left and right, like I'm about to do Baby, they have ran through 3 different Qlik resources in 6 months....two were actual consultants from Qlik. I'm the 4th and I'm on my way out too.

Company's be moving dumb as hell and we need not reward them with compliance. I'm too old to be sad about work everyday and I refuse to get in line with stupidity.

 

[Serious]

Bruh, I’m reading all this shut in my feed about people having multiple anortions and shyt. Even say some people shytting on white women. shyt is basically Facebook now.

I didn’t know it got that bad. I have mine turned off. But I use a dummy account to see / apply to open jobs.

 

[greenvale]

Got my first grad school exam back. Got an 80, freaked out but then realized teacher graded that bish wrong


I've always been for academic excellence but it is much more pressure when your company is paying for it

 

[Rawtid]

TLDR; Got a CS job then got moved to Risk. Manager was an ass. I quit. Studied. Getting my certs up and the future looks bright.

You got this!! The clearance will definitely be the game changer, but that wait will be a fool. Good move to keep studying, it will help with the waiting process. I have a friend who has been working in a SCIF for years now. I always know when they are on lunch or off work because I start getting texts lol.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

my pipeline has taken me from excitement about a black woman, to maybe just a woman of color, to two asian dudes and two white guys

i'm truly upset i lost the black chick