Stumbled aimlessly from biology to IT to philosophy to comp sci to criminology, got a lucky internship while working on data recovery and hardware repair. Lots

Stumbled aimlessly from biology to IT to philosophy to comp sci to criminology, got a lucky internship while working on data recovery and hardware repair. Lots of informal ways to break in right now because demand is very high but the overlap of legal/technological is still hard to find. So many private agencies will take anyone with decent creds right now. I would straight up cold call medium sized (<12 people)private investigators and law firms if i was looking for work right now. Your story is sadly pretty common. networking might be the worst area for expert testimony right now because its so filled with proprietary tech and non-standardized jargon. ESPECIALLY the timezones, holy crap the amount of people who refuse to work in UTC. But that theme of 'ancient certs, terrible lazy theory' and zero pushback, is pretty much the norm outside of federal homicide cases. and even then. Im not going to pretend that defense teams are immune to the kind of 'ends justify the means' wishful thinking, but ive never seen even 1/5th the lazy fabrications or insane ass-pulls.