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I need some. For some weird reason, I don't put too much weight on the advices I get in school. THere's always an agenda behind the advice it seems like. Or it is restricted, the idea is restricted within the framework of our society. I don't like that because a) I see my career being dynamic and changing b) I can't be bothered to limit myself while I do commit c) I definitely see myself going abroad, in fact I'd like to experience that ASAP, because later on, if I get family and stuff, well I have other responsibilities and changing locations like that isn't just that simple. So for now, I'd like to get in as much as possible, make my dreams come true. I'm not those who wait, I want to do. I've waited for a long time now, and now I'm starting to get on my feet so I can have the opportunities to do what I want, so it's time to execute. Now. Not tomorrow, but now.
So I've been driven by my 'mentor' to do this.. very spesific kind of analysis work on different things, it's a shame it's not what I REALLY want to do. Because I'm getting all the opportunities. She even got me a job. Yeah. She got me a job if I want to take it. It's a job that many would want, so I feel stupid because I'm not that interested in it. The job would entail the analysis work I'm doing now for the research I'm assisting in. It's cross medical and information systems field. However, the analysis part I'm doing is interesting to me so I'm happy with that, because I get to profile people with the latest technology, and this kind of things are very new, only few people do it and it's pretty interesting.
OK but my field is IT security. So I want to explore that, I'm doing my papers on it, I'm preparing to do my thesis on it. It's going so good, that I've gotten lots of good feedback. In fact it's going so that there's been some suggestions I might want to continue and research more on the topic I'm in and go for the PhD. This is my passion, this topic and field.
The company I've worked for in the past, I had my plan to work there, do my thesis for them, work for them after that for some while. That was my plan for the longest time, two years to be exact. I pitched my idea last summer, and it is still in the air. The people who decide it have asked me to wait few more months, and that they could decide before the summer. Well, that's just too long for me, I can't wait a YEAR for an answer. They know the topic, it's very sensitive, so they like it but they are like we have to clear these policies out etc etc.. all kinds of crap.
I'm getting tired, so I've thought about pitching my thesis for other companies in the meanwhile. It's like, hey, you guys had so many months to pick this up and I suggested it many times, I think my loyalty is not on stake if I start pitching this to others at this point. Because if I don't get this thesis done for a respectable company where there might be some future in it for me, I'll take up the other field, medical stuff, and I was offered a thesis spot in that already, in fact I could do it freely, roaming and figuring out my interest and trhen do it.
I want to ride this thing out first though and that's my back up.
So, suggest me ways to go with this pitching? Should I ptich my idea to all the companies I want to work for simultaniously or one by one?
Also list multinationals that are respected and could use my expertise, my field is IT security and basically.. it's not penetration testing but it's about 'ethical hacking' and techniques in that. So I could do consulting, risk assesment, part of risk management.. but for the thesis, I would conduct a research on a very spesific topic on hacking, but from the perspective of the company. I'm studying the problem of that technique/strategy, and what it means, and how one might possibly defend against that in a good manner.
So far I've been thinking the big companies like IBM, but also consulting places like Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG.
SUggestions?
So I've been driven by my 'mentor' to do this.. very spesific kind of analysis work on different things, it's a shame it's not what I REALLY want to do. Because I'm getting all the opportunities. She even got me a job. Yeah. She got me a job if I want to take it. It's a job that many would want, so I feel stupid because I'm not that interested in it. The job would entail the analysis work I'm doing now for the research I'm assisting in. It's cross medical and information systems field. However, the analysis part I'm doing is interesting to me so I'm happy with that, because I get to profile people with the latest technology, and this kind of things are very new, only few people do it and it's pretty interesting.
OK but my field is IT security. So I want to explore that, I'm doing my papers on it, I'm preparing to do my thesis on it. It's going so good, that I've gotten lots of good feedback. In fact it's going so that there's been some suggestions I might want to continue and research more on the topic I'm in and go for the PhD. This is my passion, this topic and field.
The company I've worked for in the past, I had my plan to work there, do my thesis for them, work for them after that for some while. That was my plan for the longest time, two years to be exact. I pitched my idea last summer, and it is still in the air. The people who decide it have asked me to wait few more months, and that they could decide before the summer. Well, that's just too long for me, I can't wait a YEAR for an answer. They know the topic, it's very sensitive, so they like it but they are like we have to clear these policies out etc etc.. all kinds of crap.
I'm getting tired, so I've thought about pitching my thesis for other companies in the meanwhile. It's like, hey, you guys had so many months to pick this up and I suggested it many times, I think my loyalty is not on stake if I start pitching this to others at this point. Because if I don't get this thesis done for a respectable company where there might be some future in it for me, I'll take up the other field, medical stuff, and I was offered a thesis spot in that already, in fact I could do it freely, roaming and figuring out my interest and trhen do it.
I want to ride this thing out first though and that's my back up.
So, suggest me ways to go with this pitching? Should I ptich my idea to all the companies I want to work for simultaniously or one by one?
Also list multinationals that are respected and could use my expertise, my field is IT security and basically.. it's not penetration testing but it's about 'ethical hacking' and techniques in that. So I could do consulting, risk assesment, part of risk management.. but for the thesis, I would conduct a research on a very spesific topic on hacking, but from the perspective of the company. I'm studying the problem of that technique/strategy, and what it means, and how one might possibly defend against that in a good manner.
So far I've been thinking the big companies like IBM, but also consulting places like Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG.
SUggestions?
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