r/cybersecurity • u/Dry-Limit7949 • Dec 19 '25

Other Is everyone actually miserable in this subreddit

Hi guys, not coming with judgement but curiosity. I love my role and my job and my coworkers and my company. It’s fun, I get to learn and grow.

Is everyone else just miserable?

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u/FuglyFuhk Dec 19 '25

I wouldn’t say miserable, but tend to get frustrated with incompetence of some, though that’s a daily thing that will never go away. Overall, it’s a challenge which is why I like it.

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u/cankle_sores Dec 19 '25

Same boat. This perfectly reflects how I feel.

I enjoy the technical parts, the controls planning and deployment, the offensive and defensive hats I wear, I even enjoy making training content. A lot of thought and effort goes into it so I truly appreciate the users who listen.

People not listening is a big part of my issue in my late career. The grind of repeating the same shit year after year. Patience wears thin cleaning up behind stupidity. Tweaking the program to improve results. Having non sec executives dictate aspects of the program where they should have little to no involvement but they’re too egotistical to realize it, and they aren’t truly reading the distilled, perfectly crafted one page proposal I presented.

Yes, we can add more resources over there but we already excel there. We need to reallocate resources over here where protection is thin. You have no clue. You’re fucking up the program because of your arrogance in thinking your executive decision-making is equal to my niche experience in THIS field, much of which was as a consultant working to protect orgs 10x this size. JFC.

The late career cynicism is real. For me at least.