I've been going through a rough period for the past couple of years and all the small things are catching up with me. I did research on RISC-V for my former University without pay or credit and it was alongside a doctor. I stirred up a different department on collaboration with CompSci and kept pushing FLOSS. I was effectively forced out before the talks could start so someone likely got credited with what I did.
In life I'm looked at as a failure, someone who had a bright future from a bad background. Sometimes I look back at those who ended up being successful and wonder what factors played a role in their success.
I'm not eligible for many careers because of my lack of a BS Degree. For a double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science with a minor in Cybersecurity with experience in the fields of all the above. I wasn't able to pay tuition or get a good paying job and had to quit during my senior year.
@AmpBenzScientist I recently got a doctorate in mathematics and I'm still unable to find good work in my local area.
I'm going back to school for cybersecurity as well as looking into the certification process.
I still feel, deep down, quite a bit like a failure.
@mathlover Universities have no real authority. Some professors are pillars of light but they are the only purity in Universities.
Universities have a heritage going back to antiquity that gives them credibility. IE, a University has to be a descendant of another University. This is the way it has been since God created the Earth and the first University from which all others originate.
It's based in flawed logic that either derives authority from a fairytale lineage or goes back to the days when learning was free and subsequently enslaved.
@mathlover I built my former University's Cybersecurity Laboratory and did research there. No record of that exists.
So Cybersecurity is a bastard field that leverages the general incompetence of CompSci and uses outdated information to teach about outdated threats. The certification groups exist to write outdated material and collect their massive fees. They are malevolent groups who have made all jobs in Cybersecurity answer to them and get whatever plunder they want.
SOLARWINDS123 was approved by a highly certificated and educated individual.
@mathlover I hope that this makes you feel better. Mathematics is one of the only pure fields. No one can question something that doesn't become outdated because it was proven by the strongest and most powerful proofs in existence. The purity of the field is what makes it immune.
Go with Computer Science. Did you know that you have a CompSci background? You likely used \LaTeX and Beamer to create your dissertation presentation. Maple, Mathematica or Sage Mathematics to demonstrate it. You've used typesetting and programming in the most intensively investigated and professional settings, presenting a Doctoral Dissertation in Mathematics.
If they say that isn't applicable, tell them to ask someone who could properly screen an applicant like you.
I don't need math. I got wits.
@Virgin @AmpBenzScientist @mathlover
Bullshit comment. Depends.
@PawelK @Virgin @mathlover In my experience, Comp Sci Majors don't know about JTAG, UART,...,etc or how to solder. If they were the older classes when they knew ASM and hardware, they could hack esp if they had a background in Mathematics. Mathematics is why a lot of Ruskie Hackers have been able to break encryption. They were the best at one point.
@AmpBenzScientist @Virgin @mathlover
Hw hacking vs algo and crypto hacking. Two very separate areas.
@PawelK @Virgin @mathlover Cryptography can be detected by monitoring power use as each feature produces different signals and utilization. Even SDRs have been used to to detect encrypting.
I've been involved in pentesting activities. For one, a comrade said that a certain panel couldn't be tampered with normally and the accessible part, in an elevator shaft, was heavily monitored. IE, it couldn't be tapped with conventional methods without it setting off alarms. I came up with a way but we were never able to get the contract.
@PawelK @Virgin @mathlover I do questionable things for money and entertainment.
@AmpBenzScientist @Virgin @mathlover
My kin of man. I am bit alikez.
Define good work. What are your goals?
Icchak won big in lottery.
Moshe asks him: how did you know to bet on 42?
Icchak says you see I was born on 7th and lottery was on 8th and 7x8 makes 42.
Moshe goes wait wait 7x8 is 56.
Icchak goes, you know what Moshe, you stick to maths if you like it.
@PawelK @mathlover Sweet Serendipity.
I'll repeat myself. Consider trip first and later moving to location with shit life costs like eastern Europe if need to be physically present. If can work remotely Thailand or some other usd1/day location.
Salaries in it and cybersecu are mostly equal in world and nearly maxxed, costs however you can choose from and minimize.
My background and outcome is viewed similarly to yours however I'm free free free. I escaped cotton plantation which was my dream.
Are you familiar with http://loper-os.org/ ?
Aciilifeform may be able to help you... "network". Unique talents are still appreciated in certain tight circles.
@xenmen I'll have to look into that. Most of my work is on RISC these days as the various designs can still hide secrets from me.
Many years ago I was jokingly called Will Hunting because I was a talented Mathematician who worked as a Custodian. How about them apples?