[ninegunpi]

Infosec emotional climate always had a certain pessimistic, paranoid and panicky perception from the outside, but it is greatly exaggerated, I think.

FUD, bullshit, lack of skilled people, lack of budgets, lack of understanding from adjacent departments, chaos, mayhem, overtimes, incidents and creeping "I'm not sure what's going on" have always been parts of the profession. Learning to accept frustration, constant change, ill-formed perception and rejection is part of your career choice and a selection factor in the long term. Learning to look at the world from a certain angle which is hard to unlearn (especially if you're good at it) is a mental equivalent of firefighter's calluses.

If you can bear with it all - being on defensive side and being a kind of digital first responder (regardless of where exactly you are in the industry) is a fun job and calling for some.

(Edits: Typos)