Well put.

“$70k might sound nice but software engineers make twice that easy in tech centers like San Jose, San Francisco, or Seattle.”

If you like eating scraps out of a trash can and counting pennies coins.

I gave up on c-sec. I only wanted to do it because of all the scamming these days. Then one day I realized, fuck it. The amount of stupidity and neglect is incredible. The classes are so far behind that I joked that I was taking computer history classes. I learn on my own and oh boy do I hate college. I give them a real world solution and they want someone to parrot the shitty outdated textbook (ebook). Like this book is outdated the moment it was released, maybe even written.

Then none of these classes prepare you for anything without independent study. Over the time of taking several semesters, I kept bringing up that the school website is very vulnerable. Yeah they got hacked twice. That’s when I realized that this is likely what working in c-sec will be like. You get ignored and then blamed and then told to go fix the problem.

So I’m going to just sit back and watch the embers. There’s plenty of other stuff I can do.