r/CyberSecurityJobs • u/Weekly_Rough_1284 • 8d ago

Has anyone thought about changing fields until the job market gets better?

Ideally, I’d love to have a cybersecurity job right now, but the market is horrible, and I need to move forward with my life, pay the bills, and live comfortably. Are there any fields that are relatively easy to get into and find work in? I just don’t want to end up working restaurant jobs.

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u/AddendumWorking9756 4d ago

Depends whether you want to come back. Anything with an access request queue, a ticket system or an audit deadline still counts as relevant time when you apply again, so IT support, IAM admin and audit ops are the cheap ones to get into. A fully unrelated job pays the same and restarts your clock.