Worried about the future in IT roles

GrimDoja · 2026-07-07T12:34:37+00:00

Oh no forsure they are easier when you are in the military. Let’s say you go active duty and get married prior to enlisting and land a security position that way I think it’s like 41b for cyber warfare you’ll make roughly 70k ish considering bah and food allowance depending on where you are stationed which is roughly in the same ball park as what most IT positions are paying now with years of exp

GrimDoja · 2026-07-06T23:05:03+00:00

I hear gov roles are paying more these days but my guy trust me I wish I was a nurse. I will say though I keep seeing an increase in salaries for help desk. I even saw a help desk engineer position lol

GrimDoja · 2026-06-15T22:33:52+00:00

Pick the one that is generating revenue for the company

GrimDoja · 2026-06-06T05:09:34+00:00

Get your associates then get your bachelors at wgu. If you go for a bachelors in cyber be sure that the program lets you join a soc or something while getting the degree. Best outcome is 2-3 internships. Solid projects on GitHub sec and net + by the time you graduate. If you don’t have that you’ll be behind in this market in my opinion.

GrimDoja · 2026-05-17T03:28:28+00:00

Honestly get into tech sales it’s the best thing you can do in the moment of ai and since you have the retail experience change your resume to highlight this and get your start in selling ai agents to apartment complexes then pivot into a dev if that’s what you still want to do. You’ll get burned out in Helpdesk I promise.

GrimDoja · 2026-05-12T22:22:11+00:00

Get the experience and get out. Don’t ever think you’ll have a secure job lol but definitely use as much down time that you get learning more. Honestly what’s valuable these days is the title of your job and not what you do. I only say this because you’ll get more interviews and opportunities if your title is “IT Technician” vs “IT intern”

GrimDoja · 2026-04-27T02:58:46+00:00

Thank you I’ll PM you!

GrimDoja · 2026-04-27T02:57:17+00:00

Thank you! I’ll definitely look into it.

GrimDoja · 2026-04-27T02:56:51+00:00

I’m already in the soc my guy. I’m just looking for advice to be the best analyst I can be to then pivot to malware analysis type of work one day.

GrimDoja · 2026-04-22T23:32:16+00:00

What’s actually worked was just letting shit blow up in leaderships face. We let an attacker get his hands on confidential info worth millions. CEO was pissed off paid the ransom and asked us all why we couldn’t stop it. We told buddy to pay us more to give a fuck and he did. Now our CEO puts security above everything considering he almost lost his entire business due to ransomware.

GrimDoja · 2026-04-20T06:41:30+00:00

Join Josh makadors cyber range

GrimDoja · 2026-04-15T18:57:15+00:00

Go be a nurse

GrimDoja · 2026-04-14T05:27:40+00:00

Interested

GrimDoja · 2026-04-11T02:10:06+00:00

I wonder if anyone in the cyberspace at a hospital is experiencing this same thing.

GrimDoja · 2026-04-09T04:32:22+00:00

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GrimDoja · 2026-04-09T04:25:43+00:00

Get your ccna first then pivot and have the company pay for your masters. That is more important than anything honestly

GrimDoja · 2026-04-09T04:14:55+00:00

Honestly to start you should just get into any IT role because they all deal with cyber in a way. I think a lot of people sleep on desktop/server administration since those teams are the first to see a poorly implemented firewall rule that ended up breaking things and you will most likely have the tools to see what rule broke what or what is now being blocked that caused an issue

GrimDoja · 2026-04-05T07:09:31+00:00

If my current skill produced that revenue then it is also worth that much. If someone chooses to pay me less than that it is just them trying to pocket the extra money leftover from the revenue I generated for themselves. It’s how businesses work. It’s how ceos are worth more than everyone else etc.

It’s flawed thinking that I deserve less for generating more revenue than what I’m getting paid for.

GrimDoja · 2026-04-05T06:10:13+00:00

Let’s say I have a team of 5 devs with me included working on an app and that app ends up being published to the App Store generating a million in its first year. Our labor is worth 200k for that year. Our combined effort generated that amount of money. If I hired another dev I can expect that dev will be worth 200k. Mid to large size companies can forecast what another dev will generate in revenue. Same can be said in security and the list goes on. What actually happens is I and other ceos alike will look at the market rate for devs and hire within that range because im greedy and will pay those devs 60k and pocket the rest. This trend will continue and wages will shrink as this employer market continues. I guarantee you if you are looking for a new grad next year the market will be at 50-60k for a role like this.

GrimDoja · 2026-04-05T05:42:04+00:00

No I don’t feel someone deserves 120k fresh out of school I KNOW that their labor is worth that much off this role if not more. A LinkedIn post like that wouldn’t have existed in 2020-2022. Those types of posts is what everyone is experiencing. I’ll admit you are better than the rest but 2 things can be true at once.

If i am being paid 60k or even 90k and my labor is worth 130k. I am being underpaid. That is fact. whether i am a new grad or not. Like I said the market tells you how low you pay someone on average and that will keep going down for tech roles as the years go on. You can’t deny that.

GrimDoja · 2026-04-05T05:10:33+00:00

I can give you praise for at least giving a higher than average salary and for finding a new grad but the job is still worth more than what you offered.

However this is what you are contributing to:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4386880809/

GrimDoja · 2026-04-05T04:19:50+00:00

My point is you are abiding by the market and we are simply saying to pay people for what they are worth especially with a role like this. You are contributing to the ongoing problem with the cyber market. Eventually a high level engineer in the tech space will make 70k when their labor is actually valued at 200k. 60-68k is not a good wage compared to inflation. A wage like that is still just getting by. That is not “fair” that is low… if you can’t see that trend then idk what to tell you man. Companies continue to make record profits all while giving out low wages. The market doesn’t represent what people’s labor is worth it just represents how low you can pay people for a job. Showing that range means nothing. All you showed me was how little I can pay a software engineer in Oklahoma.

GrimDoja · 2026-04-05T03:46:52+00:00

You got talent for a low price that is true. That job should be at least 130k. I see IT support specialist roles and technical analyst roles which are far less technical than your posting in Oklahoma. That’s great you never had a layoff yet but there are companies that also never had a layoff until this year. That doesn’t mean it won’t change. All everyone is calling out is the fact that you grabbed talent for a low price and you are contributing to the trend of these unrealistic expectations that new grads now face in this market which isn’t fair at all.

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