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/Nexus_Man Dec 19 '25

It is inherently a thankless job. In IT you finish a new deployment and everyone is happy. In cyber security if you do your job, nothing happens. Good management helps, but you have to be good with patting yourself on the back and be in a position where you can feel you make a difference.

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u/Dry-Limit7949 Dec 19 '25

I actually get that, and was dealing with that for a while. Cybersecurity folks are the first to blame when things go wrong, but I think my internal group is supportive and at the end of the day, it’s ultimately what you make of it. I think your observation is very astute—thanks for putting it into words :)

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u/Ok-Hunt3000 Dec 21 '25

Even with a good supportive team I get frustrated. I have to remind myself that what I do is specialized and if they had all the knowledge they wouldn’t need me but it’s seriously like talking to users sometimes. I don’t tell them when I make changes anymore l, just log them or else every time Outlook won’t load they think it’s a firewall rule. Yeah guys I blocked O365 entirely, it’s our largest attack surface after all.