u/PacketLossIRL

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Hey everyone,

I recently got selected for an Information Security Trainee role, and I'll be joining on July 1st. I'm really excited, but I also want to prepare as much as possible before my first day.

My background so far:

\- Found few bugs on hackerone/bugcrowd

\- Built a SOC home lab and have some hands-on experience with log analysis and monitoring.

\- Completed ISO 27001 training.

\- Currently preparing for the CEH certification.

Since this will be my first full-time role in cybersecurity, I'm curious about what an Information Security Trainee typically does on a day-to-day basis.

Will I mostly be working with SOC, vulnerability management, compliance, incident response, or something else? What tools should I expect to use? Also, what topics or skills should I revise over the next few days so I can make a good first impression?

I'd really appreciate any advice from people who've started in a similar role. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I recently got selected for an Information Security Trainee role, and I'll be joining on July 1st. I'm really excited, but I also want to prepare as much as possible before my first day.

My background so far:

- Found few bugs on hackerone/bugcrowd

- Built a SOC home lab and have some hands-on experience with log analysis and monitoring.

- Completed ISO 27001 training.

- Currently preparing for the CEH certification.

Since this will be my first full-time role in cybersecurity, I'm curious about what an Information Security Trainee typically does on a day-to-day basis.

Will I mostly be working with SOC, vulnerability management, compliance, incident response, or something else? What tools should I expect to use? Also, what topics or skills should I revise over the next few days so I can make a good first impression?

I'd really appreciate any advice from people who've started in a similar role. Thanks!

I still can't process what happened.

One of my college friends (we passed out in 2025) got married just 20 days ago.

Getting married itself was a huge struggle for him. He had a lot of family issues and financial problems. At one point, he had a serious fight with his father and had to leave home and stay in a rented house. His own family didn't even attend his wedding. Thankfully, his wife's family supported them, and somehow the wedding happened.

Now he was already under debt because of the marriage, but at least he was happy that he was starting a new life with the person he loved.

Then life took the cruelest turn possible.

His wife passed away just yesterday due to natural causes.

I came to know only after her funeral was over. From what I was told, her family didn't allow him to see her, blocked him, and even beat him when he tried to be there. I wasn't present, so I only know what I've been told. Maybe they were in shock and grief. I really don't know.

The saddest part is that they truly loved each other. Just because of this sudden natural death, everything seems to have turned against him. Her family blamed him. Honestly, I can understand that they were devastated and grieving, and grief can make people react in ways they normally wouldn't. But he was her husband. He lost the person he chose to spend his life with. He's hurting too, probably more than anyone else. People seem to forget that he has feelings too.

Imagine this... married for just 20 days, and now he's a widower. He couldn't even attend his own wife's funeral.

He's one of the genuinely good people I've known. During college, he even skipped his semester exams, turned down the offer he got, because his father wasn't well. Ironically, it was the same father who later kicked out of the house after a silly argument (didn't accept him till now). Instead of writing exams, he stayed back to take care of his dad.

I'm going to meet him this morning, but I haven't been able to sleep the whole night.

There's this guilt in my mind that maybe I should have been there earlier. I honestly don't know what I'm supposed to say to him. There are no words that can make this kind of pain any better.

Sometimes life is just unbelievably unfair.