If you have a good paid job what do you do

[Jollyranger10]

I currently work in an office and do some cleaning on the side. I bring home around £2500 a month. I'd love to have more money with everything going up but don't know what is be good at I'm mod 30s. Two children youngest being 8 so not like I'd struggle with child care or need to be home early. So looking for some ideas tell me about your job 🙂

Sales. Earn around 60-70k but I travel and am away to conferences/meeting clients/other company offices a few nights a week
Somwtimes i need to put in long hours sometimes im done by 3pm so probably the demands of being away from home the occadsional overnight wont work for you but my DH is a very hands on parent you dont say if you are a single parent?

Also Ive realised to be successful I need to be "on" and "available" alot. Helps that I am a good networker and get things done and sorted quickly

Thanks for reply. I could never do sales I'm not confident enough and it's something I've never fancied. I am with my kids dad he is also hands on but works aswel. Your job does sound very demanding but sounds like something you are good at.

I do cybersecurity, not something I deliberately chose but I enjoy it in the main. I came at it via call centre work and then moving into IT helpdesk management and then Governance, Risk & Compliance.

That's something I've thought of before. What is the pay like? Also how hard was it to learn?

Pays pretty good, I’ve recently been recruiting an infosec GRC analyst to join my team, not completely entry level I was looking for 1-2 years experience and the role pays £52k. I’m fairly senior now so on more than that, it typically caps out at Chief information Security Officer which in the U.K. would be around £150-200k dependency on company/sector etc but there are variances in everything so there are higher and lower paying within that role/seniority level.

i never formally did any learning, but I have always had the kind of brain that can process large amounts of information quickly, analyse and grasp concepts and linkages between processes and apply logic even if I don’t know the subject area. I read a lot, attend conferences, listen to podcasts, sign up to bulletins etc.

One of my biggest strengths though is that I can translate all of that into something that makes sense to people who don’t know cybersecurity. That means I can speak to the board or the frontline teams about a topic they don’t really care about in terms they do care about. So for example when I’m speaking to the C-Suite I don’t tell them that a critical vulnerability could allow exfiltration of sensitive PII in volumes that would require regulatory notification, I tell them that a flaw in the system could result in client data worth $xxxxxx being made publicly available resulting in reputational damage and termination of contracts.