u/Miggus_amogus

Hello everyone. I am currently a second year PhD student of Machine Learning. My research focuses mostly on developing novel AI solutions for corporations.

To put it mildly I really dislike it. I dislike the fast pace of the industry. Every half a year there is a new framework that you have to learn. Every project I get is about sth new so I gotta learn a brand new field ASAP. I dislike the creative part of it as I'm really not into developing new software/products.

Given my bachelor's and master's were mostly focused on networking with a few cybersec classes. I was considering of pivoting to a networking job. I have a solid understanding of the basic networking concepts and protocols. I have passed 3 courses related to CCNA and I should be knowledgeable enough for attempting to get the CCNA certification. I can use Wireshark. I understand TCP/IP and ISO/OSI models, VLANs, MAC and switching, IP and routing, OSPF and RIP, TCP, UDP, QUIC, NAT and ACL, redundancy protocols, BGP, etc. I do not have any practical experience with any of these tho as I have always tried to focus on SWE and ML/AI.

I would like to know if this is sufficient to immediately start looking for a job or if I should first try to get the aforementioned CCNA cert and/or other certifications.

I am also interested in the day-to-day nature of networking jobs. I think for me to not end up hating it as much as I hate my current PhD it has to have these criteria:

1. No fast-paced work environment
2. The 'topic' of your job doesn't change much (you don't have to learn a completely new field once a year)
3. The "used tools" don't change frequently
4. You don't produce a new product. I don't want to "be creative and invent sth out of thin air". I'd prefer something like an analytic role.

I'd appreciate if you could suggest some roles/jobs within networking that would fit me well. Be blunt with me, if my demands are ridiculous. I really don't want to end up in another career I will hate guts so please tell me if, from what I wrote, networking isn't a career for me.

Thank you all!

Edit: Appreciate your answers, you helped me to realize networking isn't a job for me at all.

I am attempting to remesh a model by pressing R in sculpt mode but afterwards the object gets this weird artifacts around edges and where different parts of the object connect to each other. I am loosely following a tutorial and the author doesn't seem to encounter this problem at all. Do I just need to fix this manually via sculpting or is there something I'm doing wrong that it ends up like this?

Geometry pre remesh

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Geometry after remesh

I've been wondering if, when agriculture first emerged, there could have been conflict between cultures still living as hunter-gatherers and those that had already taken up early farming. Do we have any archeological evidence of anything like this ever happening?

To sum up my situation, i am a 25 y/o from europe who graduated with CS degree and i'm currently pursuing a PhD in CS. I am mostly pursuing it for the money (yes PhDs in tech actually make decent money) bcz i discovered i am not into coding and CS at all and I am looking for a change of career.

I am very interested in going to college again as I like studying. My main issue is I do not want to go into a career where having college doesn't really get you a job unless you got fuck ton of extracurricular experience and/or networking (which is currently the case in CS job market).

I am therefore asking, what are some white-collar jobs you can do right after getting a degree from the field? I am currently only aware of Medicine being an area where getting a MD guarantees you a job but I do not want to go into medschool bcz it takes long and I am also not very interested in it.

Thank you kindly for your suggestions.