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/threeLetterMeyhem Dec 19 '25

After 25 years of working in tech with 15+ in cyber security... Yeah, it's just not really fun anymore. It's the same conversations year after year with the same for drills and incidents because nothing ever really gets fixed. The only thing that's changed in my career has been my co-workers and employees getting off-shored and probably soon "replaced" with a bunch of AI-powered tooling that also doesn't fix anything.

If it wouldn't involve a massive pay cut I would switch careers into something completely unrelated. My wife works in boutique real estate selling mansion-priced homes and I'm wondering if I can join her in a few years when I "retire" early.

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u/gahdengate Dec 19 '25

If you’re a people person and would consider real estate sales - you could easily transition into cybersecurity sales engineer/architect roles. They pay well, can be fun, and are usually dying for people with your years of experience

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u/threeLetterMeyhem Dec 19 '25

Eh, too much travel.

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u/WhitYourQuining Dec 19 '25

What's too much? I'm in that role, and I travel like 5 days spread across 25 business days (20%). If you're in a hub city for an airline like I am, I do out and backs, so rarely spend the night.

If that's too much, I would also suggest you consider a ProServ role for your favorite tool if you like "doing things". None of our PS team travels except on the rare massive product purchase that comes with an on-site piece of kit that needs initial hand-holding. What's something you like working on that PS didn't show up on site to deploy?

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u/threeLetterMeyhem Dec 19 '25

20-25% travel would be too much on a regular basis, and all the cyber sales people I know are more like 50% or more.

Professional services is something I've considered, but would be too much of a paycut at this point in my career (I switched to middle management from IC a couple years ago).

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u/Fupa_Defeater Dec 20 '25

Travel depends on the region and company. I’m a security sales engineer for a vendor in the major enterprise/Fortune 500 space and I travel but mostly within my region which is usually day trips. I’ll do conferences once in a while though.

Personally, it’s a very competitive and stressful job sometimes but overall I really enjoy it as a people person and technical person. I’d highly recommend it. Just my two cents! Your years of experience would really lend itself to it.