u/Adept_Act867

I turned 27 and I geniunly feel like I've achieved nothing in life, I feel old and so left behind. I am earning less than 5k a month at my age and i cant help but feel like I am so behind in life. I try to work hard, learn new things and so on but it all seems to not lead to anywhere. I was born and raised here, Also graduated 2 years ago with bachelor's of IT. I honeslty just want advice from people or personal experience if things do eventually get better, I just feel so old and behind.

I really would like to know the reason behind not having a proper minimum wage that is enforced?

some people are making 20k while others are making 3k for the exact same job and output.

is there a license other than opening an entire freezone business that allows me to source items and then sell them online but without me needing an office or store, basically a solo business that I run from my house

I am looking to buy cheap rice/chicken meals to distribute to people in need and working outside in this heat, however i am not sure where to find meals for around 10dhs each?

its actually so frustrating and I never really understood why candidates get judged so heavily for job hopping. I am literally being paid peanuts and i am expected to stay there for years and not look for something better just so I am not labeled as a job hopper? fuck off.

Most people aren’t leaving jobs for fun.

We leave because we’re underpaid, undervalued, have no room to grow, or simply realize that staying where we are isn’t going to get us anywhere.

And what are we supposed to do in that situation?

Stay at the same company for 5 years just so our resume looks “loyal”?

If you want to improve your salary, learn new skills, take on bigger responsibilities, or progress in your career, sometimes the only realistic way to do that is to leave.

Companies will replace employees when it makes business sense.

Employees should be allowed to leave when it makes career sense.

Yet somehow doing that a few times gets you labeled a “job hopper.”

I am getting mixed answers on if I need to attest my original degree certificate or a copy of it?

Its an Australian degree so i need to attest it from australia first then mofa

I graduated with a bachelor's of IT in cybersecurity, I've done around 2ish years of bug bounty freelaning mainly focusing on web and api vulnerabilities in which i think I've done pretty well for someone completely self taught in cybersecurity. Ive found over 100 paid out vulnerabilities ( excluding valid duplicates).

After i graduated , i did a 3 month SOC Analyst L1 internship, unfortunately the company was an international MSP and they only hire interns in the location I live in, thus no Intern > Full time was possible. Anyways, after the 3 months they refused to extend my internship due to nepotism as the HR family friend ( who just started university) wanted an internship. despite them extending the contracts of the 2 interns before me, but anyways that's life and it happens.

After the internship ended, I was jobless for a month until I eventually found an opportunity working for an MSP for a very big client as an IT Support Engineer.

The work is 2-3 days per week and I've been doing it for exactly a year now ( still in it).

Now I am looking for better opportunities, however I've been struggling to find anything in IT, I am pretty much applying to every role I believe I am at least 70% qualified for.

My main issue is also the fact that i am not quiet sure what to focus on in terms of my career in IT, I love cybersecurity and recently I've also recently been into IT infrastructure and system administration kind of work, as I've had the exposure into Azure, Intune, entra-id at my current role.

I've also played around with AWS infrastructure and services, built a small security and detection pipeline with rules and auto-remediation. Basically to learn the different kinds of services and i love learning by building so I decided to build a project related to security.

I know its best to choose 1 path and be great at it, however its kind of discouraging to open a job board and type in "SOC ANALYST" or "IT Support" or "Sysadmin" and only find 3-6 jobs posted per month for the specific roles and with over 500 applicants each while also them asking for 5+ YOE.

I'd geniunly appreciate any insight, advice or help. Thank you if you read this far!

I graduated with a bachelor's of IT in cybersecurity, I've done around 2ish years of bug bounty freelaning mainly focusing on web and api vulnerabilities in which i think I've done pretty well for someone completely self taught in cybersecurity. Ive found over 100 paid out vulnerabilities ( excluding valid duplicates).

After i graduated , i did a 3 month SOC Analyst L1 internship, unfortunately the company was an international MSP and they only hire interns in the location I live in, thus no Intern > Full time was possible. Anyways, after the 3 months they refused to extend my internship due to nepotism as the HR family friend ( who just started university) wanted an internship. despite them extending the contracts of the 2 interns before me, but anyways that's life and it happens.

After the internship ended, I was jobless for a month until I eventually found an opportunity working for an MSP for a very big client as an IT Support Engineer.

The work is 2-3 days per week and I've been doing it for exactly a year now ( still in it).

Now I am looking for better opportunities, however I've been struggling to find anything in IT, I am pretty much applying to every role I believe I am at least 70% qualified for.

My main issue is also the fact that i am not quiet sure what to focus on in terms of my career in IT, I love cybersecurity and recently I've also recently been into IT infrastructure and system administration kind of work, as I've had the exposure into Azure, Intune, entra-id at my current role.

I've also played around with AWS infrastructure and services, built a small security and detection pipeline with rules and auto-remediation. Basically to learn the different kinds of services and i love learning by building so I decided to build a project related to security.

I know its best to choose 1 path and be great at it, however its kind of discouraging to open a job board and type in "SOC ANALYST" or "IT Support" or "Sysadmin" and only find 3-6 jobs posted per month for the specific roles and with over 500 applicants each while also them asking for 5+ YOE.

I'd geniunly appreciate any insight, advice or help. Thank you if you read this far!

I graduated with a bachelor's of IT in cybersecurity, I've done around 2ish years of bug bounty freelaning mainly focusing on web and api vulnerabilities in which i think I've done pretty well for someone completely self taught in cybersecurity. Ive found over 100 paid out vulnerabilities ( excluding valid duplicates).

After i graduated , i did a 3 month SOC Analyst L1 internship, unfortunately the company was an international MSP and they only hire interns in the location I live in, thus no Intern > Full time was possible. Anyways, after the 3 months they refused to extend my internship due to nepotism as the HR family friend ( who just started university) wanted an internship. despite them extending the contracts of the 2 interns before me, but anyways that's life and it happens.

After the internship ended, I was jobless for a month until I eventually found an opportunity working for an MSP for a very big client as an IT Support Engineer.

The work is 2-3 days per week and I've been doing it for exactly a year now ( still in it).

Now I am looking for better opportunities, however I've been struggling to find anything in IT, I am pretty much applying to every role I believe I am at least 70% qualified for.

My main issue is also the fact that i am not quiet sure what to focus on in terms of my career in IT, I love cybersecurity and recently I've also recently been into IT infrastructure and system administration kind of work, as I've had the exposure into Azure, Intune, entra-id at my current role.

I've also played around with AWS infrastructure and services, built a small security and detection pipeline with rules and auto-remediation. Basically to learn the different kinds of services and i love learning by building so I decided to build a project related to security.

I know its best to choose 1 path and be great at it, however its kind of discouraging to open a job board and type in "SOC ANALYST" or "IT Support" or "Sysadmin" and only find 3-6 jobs posted per month for the specific roles and with over 500 applicants each while also them asking for 5+ YOE.

I'd geniunly appreciate any insight, advice or help. Thank you if you read this far!

Need experience to get hired, cant get experience cause no one will hire without crazy amount of experience.. is this just a limbo that we are living in nowadays?

you just waste so much time, building projects, upskilling, learning all for that not to really matter in the job market cause 99.99% of companies don't care about it.

need experience to get hired, cant get experience cause no one will hire without crazy amount of experience.. is this just a limbo that we are living in nowadays?

you just waste so much time, building projects, upskilling, learning all for that not to really matter in the job market cause 99.99% of companies dont care about it.