u/AlexandruCris

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Fac această postare ca un ghid intuitiv pentru ăștia mai tineri, pentru că voi sunteți speranța, indiferent de ceea ce zic unii boșorogi sau mileniali aroganți care "au muncit mult la viata lor" si judeca tinerii care nu vor sa munceasca pe bani putini.

1. HR-ul are scopul de a proteja compania de tine, nu invers.

  1. Unele companii străine, cu subsidiare în România, sunt venite aici să facă bani mulți cu costuri mici și, la nevoie, să profite de corupția sau incompetența locală. Vedeți cazul angajatului de la Amazon România care, în primă instanță, a câștigat, dar a pierdut la Curtea de Apel București, condusă de „celebra” Liana Arsenie.

  2. O corporație străină, cu cele mai siropoase documente și politici de „compliance” care chipurile respectă „angajatul și drepturile acestuia”, va face, la nevoie, absolut tot posibilul să ocolească legal drepturile salariatului, profitând de găurile sau ambiguitățile din legislația României.

  3. O corporație nu trebuie să fie „bully” în adevăratul sens al cuvântului ca să te facă să pleci ori să-ți găsească un motiv pentru a te da afară. Va folosi cele mai perfide și întortocheate tactici prin care să-ți discrediteze munca și să facă să pară că nu ești potrivit rolului, chiar dacă tu faci totul conform cerințelor.

  4. Limbajul „corporate” la nivel de conducere este tot timpul dublu, ca în politică. Daca nu te poti plia pe el, atunci un simplu "Nu" (negarea) este cel mai puternic cuvant in favoarea ta, in orice situatie in care se incearca sa fii descusut de vreun manager cu limbaj dublu.

  5. Ca simplu salariat, fără vreo funcție de conducere, tu nu vei avea niciodată dreptate, iar superiorii se vor apăra între ei, deoarece ei reprezintă legal compania. Nu te aștepta să-ți fie recunoscute meritele. Nu este treaba ta sa schimbi ceva in bine in corporatie, daca conducerea nu ti-a cerut asta. Orice parere pe care o oferi, trebuie sa fie din postura neutra si ramane la decizia conducerii daca o iau sau nu in vedere. Tu ti-ai facut treaba oferindu-ti parerea si prin care te-ai protejat de orice eventuale reprosuri de tipul "nu te implici destul".

  6. Într-o corporație, ai de ales între trei tipologii de caracter:

  • a) cel care se bagă în „horă” cu mentalitatea „ei plătesc, deci ei fac ce vor”, pupă în dos, aprobă orice decizie și dă din coadă la orice mângâiere, pentru a-și proteja locul de muncă, burdihanul sau pentru a promova;
  • b) cel indiferent, care doar vrea experiență, își face treaba sau „freacă menta” și, la prima ocazie, pleacă la mai bine;
  • c) cel care își vede de treaba lui, este incoruptibil și nemanevrabil, dar care, la un moment dat, va avea probleme din cauza asta.
  1. In funcție de companie, munca multă nu îți va aduce beneficii pe măsură. Cu prima ocazie când nu vei mai putea menține ritmul cu care i-ai obișnuit, îți vor atrage atenția. Multă muncă nu înseamnă neapărat și experiență!
  2. Daca ajungi la cearta cu ei, pastreaza conversatiile in scris, strict in romana (ei vor incerca sa se ascunda dupa engleza) si inregistreaza-ti munca. Daca ajungi in instanta, trebuie sa dovedesti cu audit ca nu esti incompetentul pe care ei l-au dat afara.

Evident exista si exceptii iar cele de mai sus nu reprezinta un ghid absolut, ci unul intuitiv.

Ca off topic, dacă vrei cu adevărat să muncești ca să schimbi ceva în bine luptându-te cu sistemul, caută să te angajezi la stat. La corporație trebuie doar să profiți. La stat trebuie să-ți asumi. Deși și la stat ai de ales între cele trei roluri menționate, există și un al patrulea: acela în care intri strict ca să te iei la trântă cu oamenii și sistemul, fie din placere fie din revolta. Altfel si acolo vei avea de ales între variantele a, b sau c.

Succes!

later edit:

scopul postarii nu este sa starneasca polemici contradictorii; cine vrea sa extraga ceva util din asta, bine, cine nu, iarasi bine 😉

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u/AlexandruCris — 10 days ago

I will share info from my personal experience and the only reason I do this, is because I desire to positively contribute in the community, even if the reality or what I am about to say sounds harsh.

The first most important thing is your cognitive abilities (brain structure). I will be blunt with this one. You will probably not make into the field IF from a psychological standpoint you are unfit to comprehend math. And I am not referring at being BAD at math or simply not liking it, I am talking about not being able to comprehend it at a basic level. Why? Because in cybersecurity, you will at one point hit a wall in which you need to comprehend syntax. It does not matter if it's linux, networking, programming or wireshark syntax. Syntax has nothing to do with math, but it requires the same parts of the brain as needed in math. If you have ADHD, bad spatial or floating memory, bad logic, issues with puzzles or anything that requires sequence learning, there is a very high chance this field is not for you, at least from a technical perspective. This does not mean you cannot land a job in cybersecurity somehow by luck (like I did) but you will hit a wall which you will not be able to climb if your brain is not wired for syntax. I am at that point right now.

The second most important thing is the mindset. It should never be "how do I start in cybersecurity". It should be - "how do I hack or attack devices around me". You cannot defend if you do not know how to attack first. As brutal as it may sound, you must think as a criminal, but without going on that path. Your goal is to know as much as possible about tech and how to exploit it. GPT is your best friend.

Third important thing, cyber companies nowadays need people that are like a swiss knife, to know everything and be able to do everything. This is why the number of attackers is higher than defenders. Some attackers might know how to efficiently exploit a port, but they have limited in depth technical knowledge on how a port actually works. An attacker might know how to brute force someone, but not know to set up a basic network or answer what TCP stands for, even if they use it daily. They mostly act in groups and each one has a role. In cybersecurity, they ask you to know all roles! Why? Because why hire 3 ppl when you can hire one.

Fourth important thing. Online courses or labs are good, but those are mostly meant to certify something which you've already suppose to know. If you come from a background in networking, devops or sysadmin, then yes, online courses/labs are useful. But if you don't know much about the tech in general and how it communicates and links together, then courses and online labs will be hard to comprehend.

Fifth important thing. This field changes literally by the hour. New info every hour. New technologies, new vulnerabilities. If you are not into technology and daily news in general, you will not be able to keep up.

If you want to learn anything about cyber, either hacking or security, your best friend is GPT. Obviously GPT is as smart as the user. If you ask it crap, it will output crap. Even if you ask it elevated questions, it may still output crap. But GPT is good at explaining stuff in a manner that is easy to comprehend at a first initial stage, without getting lost into tons of abstract books (which btw you will still need to study if you want a career in cybersec, so there is no escaping from reading books).

I've personally given up because I know my limits. I do not aspire to be good at this field (at least from a technical standpoint) because I simply can't. I just do cyber stuff at a hobby level, while at work I remain at a small level which I know I cannot surpass, but it's a living.

Good luck!

Later Edit:

As my post (because I dared to admit it comes from my personal failure position) is clearly dismissed by some professionals here because it stems from my "biased" perspective of an individual who discovered that cybersecurity is not his path, I will kindly recommend to be taken "as is".

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u/AlexandruCris — 11 days ago

I feel like I can't get anything done without GPT. Almost every piece of software or tech has some convoluted quirk which makes me wonder how the hell should an issue be solved nowadays without GPT.

For example, I had to mess around with my MacOS and get into safe mode, but to do that I had to hold down shift key after clicking on the drive icon, and the "Continue" would change to Continue to Safe mode". I was like wtf, not in a million years I would had knew that safe mode option would appear this way. It would had been much easy to simply make a button for it, not a ghostly changing option.

A second example was with a basic Canon printer. I was out of color and black/white ink. So basically two cartridges. I took them out and inserted a full black&white cartridge. But surprise it did not work. Why? The printer needed the coloured one as well in the slot. So I had to insert the empty coloured one to trick it into having two. Nowhere in the damn app was this explained.

A third example would be with OBS recording software. That software has so many settings and tweaks, that it took me a full day to make it work properly in my case, and while using GPT! And the fault was that my recordings were laggy because of "game mode" being ON on the Mac and all the resources were being sent to the game but insufficient were sent to the recording software.

Even in damn google chrome or google account there are so many almost hidden settings that it takes an hour at least to properly study them to understand what each one does.

I'm a millennial and grew up without and with tech, but in the last 5 years its getting worse for me, I feel like software tech is extremely convoluted, and I'm not referring at professional apps or whatever, but basic stuff.

Is anyone else feeling the same? Or I'm simply getting old and relying too much on GPT?

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u/AlexandruCris — 15 days ago