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IT can be pretty fucking stressful. You really have to distance yourself a bit from the work. If you put to much heart in and blame yourself when things go wrong you'll end up burning out and destroying yourself.
I've watched people enter info sec and it actually makes them so insanely paranoid I feel sorry for them. Especially the fella working for the charity that got owned. That's got to feel awful.
Yup, the reason I'm so good at my job is because I don't care.
If systems go down, a bunch of rich people will lose some money, but it's not a life or death situation. And not panicking is pretty much a requirement to work in upper level IT.
Don't work in medical IT.
It has been literally life and death before.
It's not 'insanely paranoid' when it is correct.
Even the really big boys have shit security and almost no one invests in it.
I was called 'insanely paranoid' for not wanting any IoT things in my house even though I am an IT guy.
I told them 'I don't want IoT things in my house BECAUSE I'm an IT guy and know what I'm talking about.'
They ignored me of course, even companies that paid for my opinion and services.
And some paid the price, but funny enough that didn't stop them from insecure practices, it just made them choose another brand of insecure IoT devices to replace the old.
Not all IoT is bad... If you decide to get some cloud IoT and keep it on the main network that's on you, but you could have a separate vlan or even a separate protocol like zigbee and z-wave to secure these devices and control them locally with home assistant. It might not be good enough for highly sensitive enterprise environments, but more than enough for average Joe who's not being targeted by APTs or espionage