I remember the good old days of developing for Netscape Navigator, IE6, Opera AND Firefox, on 800x600
HTML fixed size table menu? I got u fam
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hey you’ve called me in the past i’m already happy to chat shit
jesus talk about blast from the past
its a tricky one. there are industry standard cyber security certifications like CISSP (which apparently stands for Certified Information Systems Security Professional, not sure i ever knew that)
unless you’re going to get an industry recognised certificate then the courses i suppose are going to be more or less the same. personally i’d be try to get skills from things like Udemy or Coursera courses. CompTIA is meant to be good, i don’t have any experience with that
@TerryTibbs as a recruiter where do you guys stand on courses vs certification? if someone lists a course on their CV but has no experience or certification to back it up, do you still value that?
What are the odds of a 46 year old with absolutely no IT skills or experience besides using MS Office doing a cyber course and then getting a job on £110k? Asking for a friend. It’s a pretty serious question.
Also, do I (he) get a cyber truck as part of the job
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Not trying to avoid the question, but it totally depends from vendor to vendor and hiring manager to hiring manager.
It’s a bit of a Catch 22. Experience is more important, but quite often you need the degree/certification to get the experience.
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Honestly, slim to none.
Pre Covid, you may have got a Car Allowance as part of the package. Not sure if it would cover a CyberTruck! Now everyone is remote, no car allowances!
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No worries mate I was more asking for the others in this conversation who are wondering about training and certification. I think as a starting point the minimum would be something like the CompTIA or a similar “recognised” cert to get an entry level job
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I’ve just narrowly escaped yet another round of voluntary severance and restructure at the uni I work in. Promised myself I’d take a serious look at other career options before the next crisis hit.
Cybersecurity you say? Hmmm. 
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Literally have £100 for the rest of the month someone load me up with that 100k haha
Some of you may have known or have skated with John Thompson or his son Harvey.
John unfortunately passed away after a battle with cancer.
RIP
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Really sad news skated with John and Harvey at Saffron when i first moved east. John was always one to bring the stoke and was a great person on and off the board.
Thoughts go out to the family right now.
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Gutted. He was the most positive dude you could meet
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I currently work in-house for a local office of a US-owned fintech company. Small set up, about 10 of us in our department here in Ireland. Key detail 3 of the others are smugly, vehemently, idiologically opposed to WFH, including the boss/CMO.
When I started, they didn’t have a computer for me and I used my own laptop, which is a 2015 MacbookPro and useless for anything I do. The battery died in it a few weeks ago and reluctantly they let me WFH on my own PC, which is super fast and up to the tasks at hand. My output has vastly improved as a result of being able to do more complicated 3D work which my laptop wasn’t able to handle.
Apparently, the company will eventually buy me a laptop (my 4th or 5th choice btw), but in the meantime, the boss has now decided to bring in her own PC from home for me to work on, so I have to go back to the office full time. I doubt the specs are up to much and I won’t have my library of assets on hand, so I am not expecting my outptut to be as good as it could be, again.
All my design briefs are verbal, basically, make a marketing video for Product X, about 30 sec long. I then go sort out the script, voice over, design/animation, edit, everything. Virtually all feedback is verbal too, so when I WFH, they bizarrely give me very little in the way of things to do, which I think is a way of giving me the rope to hang myself.
I don’t think I can turn this around to my own advantage again. They just will not entertain the idea of any of our department working from home, it’s met with a straight no.
My style of diplomacy is pretty much going in guns blazing, so any useful tips to handle this situation would go down well.
Saying all that, the pay is good, they like what I do and I don’t need to talk myself out of a job in a moment of Hollywood-inspired bridge burning. It’s not perfect, but I’ve nothing else lined up at all right now.
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Thats crap. You need the right tool to do the work. Imagine a bus driver who is expected to use their own bus.
Im quite lucky as the company I work for has embraced working from home. Most likely because the big old Georgian house they have leased since the 60s is falling appart. The lease is up in 2 years and i doubt they want to renew.
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Surely any computer is cheap compared to your flesh and bone.
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It sounds like there will be no advantage to you or them from you moving from working on your home PC to their laptop in the office. So it seems reasonable to ask why, politely and diplomatically, there needs to be a change. Then the onus is on them to justify it. Does your contract say anything about place of work?
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1 option unfortunately - find a new job. No amount of diplomacy, begging, logic etc will get around this by the sounds of it.
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Yeah it the boss isn’t into it then it’s unlikely to change sadly, especially in a small company. I don’t understand people who are against wfh these days, we’ve had 4 years of proving it’s viable.
Can you lean on statistics and make the case that having a better workflow means you can produce work quicker, which hits the targets faster, makes the company more productive etc?
I couldn’t cope with verbal briefings either. My last place was like that and I ended up introducing just a simple PDF briefing form for people to fill in. Could still have an initial conversation it just helped to force people to get their thoughts down on paper
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Thanks for the replies there. Will see how it goes, but not expecting it to be as good as it could be.
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