I don't know who needs to hear this today but cyber security work is really hard. Even at the entry level, it's difficult work.
People around you too easily forget that because of the curse of knowledge -- we can't remember what it was like to not know something we know.
People around you too easily forget that because of the curse of knowledge -- we can't remember what it was like to not know something we know.
Prevalence of incomplete information, lots of inputs, tons of tacit knowledge, an ill-defined domain, high working memory demands, poor tooling and UX, lack of best practices, interpersonal challenges... I could go on. It's really hard.
Even if everybody around you seems to make it look easy -- it isn't. This stuff is complex, difficult, and mentally demanding.
I could tell you more about how hard it is but I just wrote a whole dissertation on it and you can read it in a couple months. I spend most of my time studying the complexity of the field, both on its own and compared to others. Just trust me, it's so difficult.
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