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.
I wouldn’t work for any Chinese company with the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs. Unless the alternative was ending up on the street and slowly dying a death of neglect myself. In that case I guess I’d die a slow death of the soul. A fantastic, really short story addressing this moral conundrum is Ursala K Le Guin’s classic, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.
Omelas is one of my favorite Le Guin stories.