Thought id post for those lurking thinking of quitting. I'm 36, had more health issues than id like to admit since getting covid.
7 Days ago my BP was 140/97, this morning was 123/88. Only difference is no nicotine / zyn for 7 days.
Hopefully this trend continues to drop over the next week or two so I can avoid my doctor prescribing BP medication
Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm in a HCOL area and things were manageable until some significant medical bills hit. I need to substantially increase my income.
I've applied to a large number of roles over the last 4 months targeting senior/principal offensive security positions and gotten essentially no positive responses — no interviews, mostly silence.
Redacted resume: https://imgur.com/a/jgteLyW
Context: ~7 years security experience, currently sole offensive security engineer at a large healthcare system, fully remote, targeting $180-220k base. No referrals at any of the companies I've applied to. No CVEs, no public GitHub, no conference talks.
Would appreciate feedback on the resume itself, or on targeting. Brutal feedback welcome.
Random question before I call the school. I just finished the MS CS AI/ML degree, I only did the degree for the AI/ML portion but doesn’t show on the degree. Anyone know if you pay extra, if they’ll include the specialty on the degree name?
Before you judge me, hey, can’t hurt to ask. I paid my fees & did my time to earn the degree. Sure would look cooler on my wall seeing the full thing..
Now I can put it in a drawer and forget I have it!
kinda bummed the degree doesn't show AI/ML
I've been waiting for my evaluation for the last couple of days for a small correction, and then I'm done with the degree. Got me thinking, it would be kinda nice if they had a live queue number you could check instead of refreshing all the time to see if they had started
As someone who’s taken many versions of the MLA-C01, the version I received recently, was harder than the CISSP. No shade, but I advise anyone who’s considering the exam to not take it, the version I got is far, far above associate.
I personally, as someone on the hiring management level, strongly feel this is done to force retakes. As someone who’s taken top level certs from every major industry in the field, this is by far the worst.
If you can, avoid it. I would put the overall on value x industry value x fairness, significantly below EC-Council.
Didn’t pass a 3rd attempt by 1-2 questions.
Thankfully, my discussions with an affiliated university on seeking other organizations & removing AWS from their curriculum due to AWS misalignment on associate level difficulty is being taken seriously. I’m also affiliated with hiring processes, and will be advising AWS certs in my opinion, are on par with EC-Council & to not seek them out.
I’ve heard from many others their other certifications are on par with their claims, but this one is just egregiously misaligned. I’ve talked to many, many people with the certification, I’ve never heard 1 person say they felt it was an associate level exam & AWS was testing fairly. Of course, this is Reddit, there will be many who feel the contrary.
To pay money, to have AWS test how they deem fit, on how well you know their paid products just blows my mind honestly.
Just took the MLA-C01 today, the exam felt no where near an associate level, and the version I got was leagues harder than the paid AWS skill builder program. It felt on par with the CISSP. Anyone else have a similar experience?
