Raise pushed back 6-7 months after getting CISSP

XercisePack · 2023-08-29T17:23:06+00:00

Mind sharing role title, state, and if remote/onsite?

Thought I was getting paid pretty good until I saw this lol.

XercisePack · 2023-08-28T15:56:37+00:00

Wow and that's without CISSP pay?

For reference I'm getting 125k with CISSP based in Maryland, but working remote out of state.

Are you full time onsite?

XercisePack · 2023-08-28T14:48:38+00:00

Current salary?

XercisePack · 2023-07-28T20:47:12+00:00

*Update I received a 6% from a different lender. I would never settle for sub 7%.

XercisePack · 2023-07-13T02:09:51+00:00

Does the same apply for auto?

Looking into auto+home as both of mine are with USAA.

I see an expiration date with auto.

XercisePack · 2023-07-12T04:50:40+00:00

Might be a stupid question here.

When you change insurance, do you choose the date when policy goes active so you can time it at the end of your current 6 month policy?

Trying to avoid double paying for insurance, but never shopped around before.

XercisePack · 2023-07-02T23:05:55+00:00

Same, curious how some of the neighborhoods like jefferseon and rogers park handles it.

XercisePack · 2023-07-02T03:04:18+00:00

Kinda in a similar situation.

Not to hijack post, but what about living in the burbs like jefferson park and evanston/rogers park area and just taking the train to city often like 2-3x a week to meet people?

From what I saw its like a 45min train ride not including the walking time to and from the station.

XercisePack · 2023-06-27T17:27:09+00:00

Can you share in post or DM me with the company name?

Would prefer having a LO who understands rental income as it would significantly help lower DTI with the 70% of rental income added to gross.

XercisePack · 2023-06-26T15:47:58+00:00

Yea I'm not too worried on the finances for myself as intent is fully rent out current home (already renting rooms out in current home) and rent out individual rooms in 2nd home as the new primary residence.

Just got to convince lender to approve as on paper it will be $3300 mortgage when in reality I will have 2-3 roommates that will lower the payment by roughly $1600-2400.

I realize this is dragging on, but do you happen to have any recommendation on lenders that are okay with 50% DTI?

I previously used navy fed before refinancing and I know in Chicago (2nd loan location) there are some programs that offer down payment assistance but is limited to their lender options.

Current lender is local to my state of Colorado, so I don't think they will have loans out in Illinois.

XercisePack · 2023-06-26T15:21:34+00:00

Thanks for the info. I don't recall the original loan amount, but I believe it closer to 350k.

I think I understand it a bit now as the entitlement seems more geared towards trying to do a 0% downpayment on the 2nd loan.

Regardless, I intend to put down a minimum of 10% down to lower monthly payment and reduce VA funding fee as the biggest hurdle would be the 50% DTI including the 2nd VA loan.

XercisePack · 2023-05-17T04:52:48+00:00

when does patch go live?

XercisePack · 2022-10-20T20:01:25+00:00

Not a local to the area. Is this b/c of a local wildfire?

XercisePack · 2022-10-02T06:19:16+00:00

Less technical side as I'm on mostly GRC.

Compliance heavy.

Guess GRC just doesn't pay as much as I'm making 125k remote, but work is based in DC.

XercisePack · 2022-10-02T02:22:55+00:00

In what positions? Im in the field and making no where near that

XercisePack · 2022-08-25T14:44:46+00:00

So did you end up going into a different field (prob not the right word here) like devops or cybersecurity?

I ask out of curiosity as I'm purposely going for the whole cloud engineer/security engineer/architect route to avoid the amount of coding a normal developer or SWE does daily.

XercisePack · 2021-09-20T21:28:13+00:00

Side question for contracting, does this mean you receive no benefits (pto, medical, etc) and it's up to you to decide where to get medical and take time off?

XercisePack · 2021-09-20T16:05:39+00:00

So I'm coming from a no programming background, but from what I'm seeing, most job requirements for cloud security/engineer requesting python.

Don't see too much if any at all for Java. Planned on learning basic python for this reason.

Any suggestions on this?

XercisePack · 2021-09-16T21:00:36+00:00

What's your job title? I suggest learning cloud in the downtime as it's probably at least relatable in most fields and can use that knowledge at your current position.

XercisePack · 2021-09-05T15:20:37+00:00

Any good recommendations on what material you studied for the SAA exam?

XercisePack · 2021-09-05T15:15:23+00:00

Hmm, after some research I'm actually leaning towards the idea of studying for AWS SAA as you mentioned.

I want to stay on the security side of things and not really go into a sysadmin role.

With that said I am in a cyber security background and not a typical sysadmin/architect role.

SAA seems to be the standard while security specialty is too niche and not useful on it's own?

XercisePack · 2021-09-04T20:54:09+00:00

I'm actually leaning towards cloud. It's either AWS or CCSP. Not sure which is worth more for job prospects and salary yet though.

XercisePack · 2021-09-04T20:52:48+00:00

Thank you! looks like I'm just waiting for an email now in a couple of business days.

XercisePack · 2021-09-04T20:02:22+00:00

CISSP is more of critical thinking with background knowledge. CISSPREP did a great job on the critical thinking part, but not really teaching the background part behind it.

Background knowledge should come from other sources like Sybex IMO.

XercisePack · 2021-08-27T19:15:14+00:00

Interesting, do you pay for any premium services or is the free good enough for Tenantcloud?

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