u/wake_up_jean_peal

Been a listener since the trillballins days (rip). Finally saw spiderman yesterday and loved it, so I went to listen to the pod’s breakdown. They spent 10 minutes arguing about it being shot in Scotland and didn’t once mention the fight scene with The Hand. I thought that whole sequence was so sweet and it was probably my favorite part of the holland spiderman movies

For big movies I think they should do a scene by scene breakdown the way the rewatchables does.

Alright back to petting my cats, enjoy your Sunday boys

Context I have close to 4 years of experience and Net/Sec+

Within the last year I went from working at a company of about ~30,000 people to one that has about ~100. At my old company, I supported a mission critical app doing everything from end user support and testing to IT risk and security. Problem was growth was really slow and I wasn’t getting nearly enough work.

The hiring manager sold me on the fact that we’re a small company and I’d have my hands in a lot of different areas. Fast forward to today and I feel like I was completely lied to. My manager is technically the head of the company’s IT department but does none of the IT work. We work with a small MSP and whenever there is an issue his answer is to pass it off to them, they also manage all of our large projects so there’s a roadblock getting involved there. He’s so disengaged that I’ve had people from the MSP tell me not to bring troubleshooting/user issues to my him because he’ll just refer it back to them and offer no help. My biggest footprint here is working on IT risk, but even that is few and far between.

One positive is that I have full access to our SIEM, EDR, IAM, and firewall software so it’s given me a new skill set to explore. I’ve tried to get my manager to let me get involved with security related projects, but again he is so disengaged from what we do that he has no answer.

I’m torn between getting my CYSA+ or exploring one of the vendor specific certs for the tools we use in house. My biggest problem is that I am learning absolutely nothing and getting more removed from hands on IT/security/risk work. Curious to hear if anyone else has been stuck in a similar situation and what they did to remain productive? How soon is too soon to leave a role like this? If anyone would be willing to take a look at my resume I would really appreciate it! I’m mainly thinking of exploring GRC or risk roles at this point.

Those two stories about him smoking crack and staring out the window because he was so paranoid and forgetting to defrost the pork chops were the hardest I’ve ever laughed at this podcast. Had to go to the bathroom at the office because I was wheezing. Well done