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’d probably try to get the job back, if it were me.
That client is going to be a client whether or not you’re there. Their views are going to be the same whether or not you’re there. And the company is going to pay somebody to do the job whether that’s you or not. And what’s going to happen is going to happen regardless of what you do. Food and shelter are needs for you. You suffering helps nobody.
As for finding work, I suspect a lot of places are trying to leverage AI and fewer bodies. (I do hope that trend dies.). But we see a lot of layoffs in IT the last few months.