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Worried I've tanked my career (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by corvi@lemmy.zip to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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I work in Cybersecurity, and have about 4 years experience. I’m currently in a SOC Manager role. Working at an MSP, it hasn’t always been easy to deal with the politics surrounding some of our clients, especially in the current administration.

One of our clients is, at least from my perspective, directly involved with supporting and advocating for genocide. This has been eating at me for months, and finally culminated in me telling my manager I was resigning.

He took it well, and they asked me to stay on for 90 days while I looked for a new job. The issue is that I’m 45 days into this and have barely received a few nibbles from my applications. I know my resume isn’t perfect, but I’d thought my experience would be enough to hear back at least from tier 2 analyst positions, if not the management ones.

They’d probably let me stay if I asked, but my soul can’t take it anymore. But I’m really worried about the job search getting even harder once I can’t say I’m currently employed.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suppose it’s not possible to set up an arrangement where you don’t do any support for that specific client? Your situation sounds like it really sucks OP, I’m sorry.

I’ve worked really hard to never work in the for-profit world because of how immoral I find it, and I definitely leave salary on the table because of it. I respect you for sticking to your principles.

[–] BandanaBug@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago

My idea too. Just refuse to work for that specific client, problem solved. But also, job searches are about perseverance. Don't give up!