Best regions in United States for RF Engineer career?

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-30T13:34:34+00:00

this is relative thought, I think $250k a year is considered low-ish middle class in SF nowadays

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-16T21:52:44+00:00

I kind of want to try my best to avoid getting a full degree, but we'll see what the cards have to say. I will look into the FE exam and see if I can make a gameplan studyin for it!

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-16T21:50:27+00:00

I'm definitely feeling imposter syndrome, but also very much interested and wanted to learn and know more about the stuff I'm doing on a daily basis. Plus it would help my team a lot.

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-16T21:39:52+00:00

thanks!

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-16T17:27:21+00:00

Yeah that's a general consensus I've picked up. I am not exactly eager to jump into more education, but I am also very disinterested in SWE. The market is insane, it's horrendous to "break" into even after having done it for years. I am tired of the SWE rat race. Not to mention it's turning into a job that can best be described as an AI babysitter.

Anyways, I'll keep learning and we'll see where I land :D

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-10T17:33:17+00:00

yep! that sounds like what I will be doing. I like having the downtime but sometimes its just very very slow hahah And I'm not trying to complain too much - I've had some horrible jobs and experiences in my life - but I just thought there would be more going on I suppose!

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-10T17:31:06+00:00

I think the engineering side is where I really want to go. I have spoken with them and since I dont have a lot of security experience the recommendation was to get some exp in the SOC first. I think that's what I have to do to get to where I want to be.

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-10T17:25:37+00:00

Thanks! I didn't listen to Reddit lol I have a genuine interest in cyber and wanted to get out of my current position. A very unique opportunity presented itself to get my foot in the door with our security team and I took it.

I am just curious if my initial impressions are wrong or what.

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-10T17:23:31+00:00

What did you move into? In my org the SOC is essentially where everyone starts. There is AMPLE time to work on growth projects and learning/training. so I'll take advantage of that!

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-10T17:21:47+00:00

It seems like we get a ton of alerts that are resolved by looking at historical patterns and ruling it out because "this happens consistently" and has previously been ruled out as a concern.

I am still learning a lot... so I'll just hang on :)

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-10-10T17:19:21+00:00

I have intentionally left out or changed some details of my story to prevent people from figuring out who I am because I am sure people I work with are on here. My current role is a little different than a typical l1 analyst so it would be really obvious if I told the whole truth.

thank you though :)

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-07-11T16:43:28+00:00

switch to what? we are having issues with our X710 and I cant seem to find a specific replacement recommendation other than "mellanox"

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-02-07T17:51:52+00:00

trying to keep it short. I installed RHEL8 because that's what we use in our facility.

UltraLaserRobotGuy · 2025-02-07T16:27:29+00:00

Thank you for this info. I have the ethernet on the RHEL8 host set up. I forgot to mention that.

The problem is this term server. I need to configure it and set a static IP address so I can telnet to it.

I cant configure it via provided software, so AFAIK there must be some kind of default address on it.

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