I'm 53 and have been in the IT Security space since before there WAS an IT security space. I have installed 6 SIEMs, just put a bullet in SIEM number 5 (oddly t

I'm 53 and have been in the IT Security space since before there WAS an IT security space. I have installed 6 SIEMs, just put a bullet in SIEM number 5 (oddly the first time I'd ben in an organization long enough to both install and uninstall one.) and the Current generation has an on-prem and off-prem installation due to data sensitivity...we're re-doing the on-prem installation for reasons...so I'm kinda at SIEM 6.5 of the first 5...NONE of them are still in existance. I recognize the circle of life nature of my job and have gradually changed my raison de etre from 'Protect the company!' to 'Advance my career!' to 'Pay off my mortgage.' It was a bitter pill when I realized my job was 'look at magnetic patterns on a spinning disk on a computer half a world away and determine if they were GOOD patterns (company data) or BAD Patterns (bad guys)'.