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What the title says: what would you do in my position? TL DR: best opportunity in terms of tc and career growth: data engineer at Deloitte, or cyber security consultant? Only degree: bachelors. I’m a non traditional student, quit job back in Jan 2020 to finish my economics undergrad. During 2012-2020 I ran my own consulting firm, was a huge self learner that got good local gigs and enjoyed the 1099 life and not chasing tc. This was a huge mistake, I didn’t play for the long game. So much pain. I graduate at the end of next semester and I’m trying to figure out how I can put myself in the best position in terms of tc and career growth. My past experience favors data engineering. But I’m worried about only having a bachelors in economics and how that will stunt my path to doing ML stuff later down the road. I know I can flourish in the field because I have a knack for math / quant / coding stuff but I’m wondering how much recruiters favor experience over higher degrees. Also timeline for this job absolutely sucks - I’ll still be in school while having to work 40+ hours, this is a big concern I have. Cyber security has always been a very intriguing field for me and I have friends at NCC group big cyber firm) that can basically give me a job as soon as I get OSCP cert done (~5 months, can be done during last semester of school). Timeline works way better and I would be doing work that i enjoy. So, which opportunity should I go for? Tc:🥜 YoE: 3 years development 3 years marketing 1 year db / analytics #tech #dataengineering #cybersecurity #careerchange
Go to NCC. I can only see big things coming with it. Cyber is fun. And NCC will help you learn. Get a couple of years then join a FAANG.
Cyber is definitely fun, I love the complexity and types and ways one can solve problems. Appreciate your comment!
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Big tech hire a lot of ncc people and pay them 3x what they make at NCC. I’d advice going there and jumping to FAANG after a couple years for a huge pay bump. Seems like a lot of good people come from ncc
Appreciate the response.