After reviewing the NICE Workforce framework, I find myself drawn the investigative aspect of the job. I, like many others have grown up watching procedurals and have always found those types of jobs interesting. While I know that what is shown on TV is over dramatized and real life is typically significantly less exciting, I still enjoy the idea that someone did something wrong and it is my job to prove it. Both Cyber Investigation and Digital Forensics fall right into that category. My favorite school I attended during my time in the Navy was “Network System Vulnerability Technician (NSVT)” where our final revolved around being able to prove a prosecutable event happened by analyzing all kinds of logs throughout the network. That final is the most I’ve ever enjoyed taking an exam. That experience is a large part of the reason I am also taking criminology classes.

Strategic Policy and Planning, Risk Management and other areas that deal in the planning or policy aspect of the field hold little interest for me. I am very much the type of person who wants to just go and get my hands dirty. I was told when I was in the Navy that there were two types of ITs, those who are good at policy and those who are good at operation. I was an operator. I hated sitting down and writing policies for my Command. I was there to fix equipment that was broken, or apply patches, or whatever other work was required for us. I cannot imagine a career that I would be happy in long term that was majority policy and administration.