Life Experience
My Tech
Journey
Wandering around for 40 years!
IN 2024
Education
UCLA - BS Political Science, Law
Cal State Los Angeles - Accounting, Tax
ANDREW NAKAMURA
HealthCare Partners (Optum health) - Manager, New Technology
WesCorp (Financial) - SQL DBA
Keck Medicine (Health) - SQL DBA
Prolacta Bioscience - Biotech Manufacturing (Sysadmin & Security)
Career
Myth buster
There is one perfect job for me
MYTH
My major is going to lead to my career
MYTH
I will have
only one career in my lifetime
MYTH
If I wait, luck will bring me to the right career
MYTH
Choose jobs with the most money (so I can retire early)
Where can you go with 0 skills and experience?
Information Security
1. Application Security Administrator
2. Artificial Intelligence Security
3. Automotive Security Engineer –
4. Blockchain Developer / Engineer –
5. Blue Team Member
6. Bug Bounty Hunter
7. Cybersecurity Scrum Master
8. Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
9. Chief Security Officer (CSO)
10. Cloud Security Architect
11. Counterespionage analyst
12. Cryptanalyst
13. Cryptographer
14. Cyber Insurance Policy Specialist – Consult on cyber risk and liability protection.
15. Cyber Intelligence Specialist – Analyze cyber threats and defend against them.
14. Cyber Insurance Policy Specialist
15. Cyber Intelligence Specialist
16. Cyber Operations Specialist
17. Cybercrime Investigator
18. Cybersecurity Hardware Engineer
19. Cybersecurity Lawyer
20. Cybersecurity Software Developer / Engineer
21. Data Privacy Officer
22. Data Recovery Specialist
23. Data Security Analyst
24. Digital Forensics Analyst
Cybersecurity Jobs Report: 3.5 Million Unfilled Positions In 2025
Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings in 2013 to 3.5 million in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. The number of unfilled jobs leveled off in 2022, and remains at 3.5 million in 2023, with more than 750,000 of those positions in the U.S. Industry efforts to source new talent and tackle burnout continues, but we predict that the disparity between demand and supply will remain through at least 2025
Cybersecurity Jobs Report: 3.5 Million Unfilled Positions In 2025
While Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, and the other tech giants are going through layoffs, our industry has hung out an enormous Help Wanted sign,” Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures, told FOX Business. “We expect brisk hiring in the cybersecurity space for the rest of this year, and through 2025.”
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Where can you go with 0 skills and experience?
Thank You
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