So I was recently very lucky in having to deal with two awesome opportunities within my company in the same department:
1. A new role in the same city as my brother and sister-in-law. Since we're all grown up, we haven't lived in the same city for around 10 years, so that'd be cool and interesting. But I just moved and I'd be doing the same thing I'm doing now. This opportunity came to me first and forced me to really consider what I want out of my career in the short term.
2. A role in my current office but my responsibilities would change slightly. I've now got global ownership/major involvement of several large workstreams like DLP, Virtual Desktop, and privileged account management just to name a few. It feels really strange to say that I'm the global lead for initiative xyz as a 20 something that's new to information security but it's really cool and kind of an ego-trip. Also the role is more technical, which is really what I want in the short term.
I ultimately chose the the role where I'd become the global lead. I wasn't excited about the first opportunity and that's the dead give-away. The more I found out about the 2nd opportunity the more excited and interesting I found it. I actually made the decision in about a day and a half. I know I'm going to be working my tail off but I was anyways so that's nothing new. At least I'll enjoy doing it.
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