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Nobody talks about this in cybersecurity. I feel like nobody talks about how it feels to hit six figures and then realize that it's not all that it's cracked up to be. Depending on what type of cybersecurity career you go into, the amount of visibility and like, I'll call it stress that you have to take on to kind of like hover in that six-figure range, by the way. I'd say low to mid six-figure range. It almost balances itself out. It almost makes you want to go back down to like 90, 95k. Because you're in this weird space where like, your life from 90k to like 130k doesn't really change that much. After 150, you start to see some subtle changes in just like the access that you have. But the hard part about that is you start to see that you're approaching a ceiling in terms of how much money you can make, balanced against like how much time you want to put into your job. And then on top of that, once you cross that 100k mark, you get visibility into some of the stuff that happens like behind the scenes. So you start to see like contract, you start to see like, oh, we're onboarding this vendor for this much money and we're paying this vendor this much to do this. And then you start thinking, damn, I could do this by myself. What am I doing here? And so like, you enter this complex psychological kind of space where you're forced between a decision to like deal with life in the way that it is right now, where you're working super hard, but you're not really seeing like a potent tangible result or you can even work harder for the chance of like massive success. At least that's where I'm at right now. Y'all let me know if, you know, maybe I'm tripping. My ex said that I was a narcissist and that I had delusions of grandeur. That's what she said to me. And maybe that's what this is. But y'all tell me if I'm tripping.