u/Peacefulhuman1009

**This post has nothing to do with Elon's politics. Purely business.

I own ASTS and can hold for 5+ years. But honestly I don’t fully understand how it stacks up against what SpaceX is doing.

I know AST has AT&T and Verizon as partners. How much protection does that actually give them? Is there room for both companies to make money or does SpaceX eventually squeeze AST out?

Be brutally honest. I want to hear the downside too.

I need to future proof myself.

I already have my CISA.

So:

• Whats the best study material?
• How long did you study for?
• What was your total cost?
• How hard was the exam?
• Has it helped to get your resume additional looks?

I need to future proof myself.

I already have my CISA.

So:

• Whats the best study material?
• How long did you study for?
• What was your total cost?
• How hard was the exam?
• Has it helped to get your resume additional looks?

For those of you who have gone through federal regulatory exams, how do you prepare?

I’m interested in both the document prep and the actual conversations with regulators.

What do you do beforehand that has made the biggest difference? Anything you wish you had done differently the first time?

I’ll be speaking directly with regulators about an area I own, so I’m especially interested in practical advice from people who have been through it.

I'm getting fairly "high up" in financial services, and at time I see people that just make me pause...not that they are attractive, but it's just a powerful look....

So, I’ve been thinking more about how I present myself. Not in a flashy or “look rich” kind of way. I mean the small things that make someone come across as polished, serious, and senior before they even start talking.

For those of you who work around executives regularly, what actually matters? Clothes, haircut, beard, shoes, watch, fitness, posture, how you carry yourself?

What makes someone look like they run something versus just being another well-dressed professional?

My daughter wants to major in something like “music industry” or “entertainment business.”

My stance is pretty simple: she can major in whatever she wants. It’s her life.

But if she chooses something that doesn’t have a solid career path and decent earning potential, I’m not paying for it.

If she wants to do MIS, engineering, finance, accounting, nursing, etc., I’ll support her financially. But I’m not dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a degree that I think has a weak payoff.

I also told her I wouldn’t be proud of that decision, and I do feel bad about saying that.

But college is expensive as hell, and some of these degrees feel like a hustle. I want her to have a strong foundation first, make good money, and then pursue whatever passions she wants from a stable position.

She can still choose the music route. I just don’t think I have to fund it.

Am I wrong?

My daughter wants to major in something like “music industry” or “entertainment business.”

My stance is pretty simple: she can major in whatever she wants. It’s her life.

But if she chooses something that doesn’t have a solid career path and decent earning potential, I’m not paying for it.

If she wants to do MIS, engineering, finance, accounting, nursing, etc., I’ll support her financially. But I’m not dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a degree that I think has a weak payoff.

I also told her I wouldn’t be proud of that decision, and I do feel bad about saying that.

But college is expensive as hell, and some of these degrees feel like a hustle. I want her to have a strong foundation first, make good money, and then pursue whatever passions she wants from a stable position.

She can still choose the music route. I just don’t think I have to fund it.

Am I wrong?

Put us all on game

I’m a 41-year-old Black man currently living in Charlotte. When I say Black man, I truly mean BLACK. As in, whatever you think of a college educated black man from the south...odds are, I'm that. I love fried foods, I love hip-hop (Tupac ranks right up under Obama for me), I love to dance, I love the way we ...talk (even though I code switch all day long). I LOVE black women. I love nappy hair. All of that. So when I say Black, I mean what you think it means, in many ways.

After my daughter graduates, I’m considering moving to Long Beach around age 45. I've been there multiple for vacation, I love how i feel when there. But visiting is different from living.

I work in risk management and currently earn around $270K+ total compensation. I love major-city energy, great food, good bars, live jazz, the ocean and culturally diverse environments.

For those of you familiar with the long beach area:

• Is there any type of Black community, particularly for professionals over 40?
• How strong are the Black-owned restaurant, cocktail bar and live-jazz scenes?
• Would I feel culturally at home, or would I need to spend most of my social time in ...Compton, Inglewood, and all of that?

I’m a 41-year-old Black man currently living in Charlotte. When I say Black man, I truly mean BLACK. As in, whatever you think of a college educated black man from the south...odds are, I'm that. I love fried foods, I love hip-hip (Tupac ranks right up under Obama for me), I love to dance, I love the way we ...talk (even though I code switch all day long). I LOVE black women. I love nappy hair. All of that. So when I say Black, I mean what you think it means, in many ways.

After my daughter graduates, I’m considering moving to Long Beach around age 45. I've been there multiple for vacation, I love how i feel when there. But visiting is different from living.

I work in risk management and currently earn around $270K total compensation. I love major-city energy, great food, good bars, live jazz, the ocean and culturally diverse environments.

For those of you familiar with the long beach area:

• Is there any type of Black community, particularly for professionals over 40?
• How strong are the Black-owned restaurant, cocktail bar and live-jazz scenes?
• Would I feel culturally at home, or would I need to spend most of my social time in ...Compton, Inglewood, and all of that?

I’m a 41-year-old Black man currently living in Charlotte. When I say Black man, I truly mean BLACK. As in, whatever you think of a college educated black man from the south...odds are, I'm that. I love fried foods, I love hip-hop (Tupac ranks right up under Obama for me), I love to dance, I love the way we ...talk (even though I code switch all day long). I LOVE black women. I love nappy hair. All of that. So when I say Black, I mean what you think it means, in many ways.

After my daughter graduates, I’m considering moving to Long Beach around age 45. I've been there multiple for vacation, I love how i feel when there. But visiting is different from living.

I work in risk management and currently earn around $270K total compensation. I love major-city energy, great food, good bars, live jazz, the ocean and culturally diverse environments.

For those of you familiar with the long beach area:

• Is there any type of Black community, particularly for professionals over 40?
• How strong are the Black-owned restaurant, cocktail bar and live-jazz scenes?
• Would I feel culturally at home, or would I need to spend most of my social time in ...Compton, Inglewood, and all of that?

I’m a 41-year-old Black man currently living in Charlotte. When I say Black man, I truly mean BLACK. As in, whatever you think of a college educated black man from the south...odds are, I'm that. I love fried foods, I love hip-hop (Tupac ranks right up under Obama for me), I love to dance, I love the way we ...talk (even though I code switch all day long). I LOVE black women. I love nappy hair. All of that. So when I say Black, I mean what you think it means, in many ways.

After my daughter graduates, I’m considering moving to Long Beach around age 45. I've been there multiple for vacation, I love how i feel when there. But visiting is different from living.

I work in risk management and currently earn around $270K total compensation. I love major-city energy, great food, good bars, live jazz, the ocean and culturally diverse environments.

For those of you familiar with the long beach area:

• Is there any type of Black community, particularly for professionals over 40?
• How strong are the Black-owned restaurant, cocktail bar and live-jazz scenes?
• Would I feel culturally at home, or would I need to spend most of my social time in ...Compton, Inglewood, and all of that?

I sit within Enterprise Risk Management—not cybersecurity—and I’m leading a bank-wide ServiceNow IRM implementation covering risks, controls, issues, policies, BCM and related workflows. However, I don’t directly own those risk processes; other ERM teams do.

My long-term scope will likely be:

• GRC change and intake management
• Risk-data quality and governance / the process, risk and control library
• Platform oversight and integration
• Enterprise risk reporting and analytics, which is still a future-state capability

I’m paid well (over 200k) and have executive visibility (am at the VP level with 2 directs), but I’m concerned I’ll become the person who maintains everyone else’s system and data without owning a substantive risk domain.

Is this a legitimate path toward senior ERM/GRC leadership, or have I boxed myself into a support function with limited advancement potential?

I sit within Enterprise Risk Management—not cybersecurity—and I’m leading a bank-wide ServiceNow IRM implementation covering risks, controls, issues, policies, BCM and related workflows. However, I don’t directly own those risk processes; other ERM teams do.

My long-term scope will likely be:

• GRC change and intake management
• Risk-data quality and governance / the process, risk and control library
• Platform oversight and integration
• Enterprise risk reporting and analytics, which is still a future-state capability

I’m paid well (over 200k) and have executive visibility (am at the VP level with 2 directs), but I’m concerned I’ll become the person who maintains everyone else’s system and data without owning a substantive risk domain.

Is this a legitimate path toward senior ERM/GRC leadership, or have I boxed myself into a support function with limited advancement potential?

I'm trying to be a 3 to 5 million up, then living entirely off of interest, on the west coast (great weather, and weed, and video games.). With a nice clean drop top convertible. Nice clothes and in good health.

Don't expect to be in a super big house or anything. But have to be super near the coast.

Basically, I am trying to stack to the point where I am no longer thinking about money anymore.

What's your end-state financial goal? What are you hustling so hard for?

Has anyone ever seen a SOX, Compliance, or Audit program ran completely out of ServiceNow?

Where do we even begin with SAT prep?

I am a single father, and I am entirely lost as to what we are supposed to be doing in order to get ready for the SAT.

What did you do around this time? Is it too late?

How does your intake / governance process work, in regards to the various process owners, your team, and the overarching platform team?

I'm the director of GRC, and I don't want to become a useless bottleneck between the people who do the work, and the platform team (the people who run change management within the larger ServiceNow platform).

But I'm also accountable for the structure of the various items within IRM (policy, issues management, risk management).

What type of governance and intake have you seen or conduct?

How does your intake / governance process work, in regards to the various process owners, your team, and the overarching platform team?

I'm the director of GRC, and I don't want to become a useless bottleneck between the people who do the work, and the platform team (the people who run change management within the larger ServiceNow platform).

But I'm also accountable for the structure of the various items within IRM (policy, issues management, risk management).

What type of governance and intake have you seen or conduct?