Gen Y Speaks: Switching careers from teaching to cybersecurity wasn’t easy, but I’m glad I stepped outside my comfort zone

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When I was about two to three years into teaching, my first career, I casually asked a senior colleague whether I should make a career switch within the next couple of years.

He said he had heard only of a mid-career switch into teaching and that it would be “quite challenging” to do a mid-career switch from teaching.More importantly, nothing beat witnessing my students’ growth.

And with that, I found the courage to quit in December 2019, having taught for five years as a history teacher in a secondary school.The author conducting a class leaders’ workshop in 2018 while she was still teaching.While I wanted to remain in the civil service, given that it was one of the mediums in which I could give back to society, I couldn’t simply make an inter-ministry transfer as a teacher.

As the office was looking to hire, he shared with me the job description and asked if I was interested. The constant reading up on cybersecurity and technologies, badgering of my patient colleagues across the agency and attending relevant cybersecurity courses have also helped me hone my craft and better manage my work.

 

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Would like to emulate. Pls give tips.

lucky you..for those 40plus..try to do that, a few years still jobless..have to end up doing low paying jobs..

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