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Unfortunately, my current company has an RTO plan I disagree with. During the pandemic, my home life has been switched around and need to be home for the kids as my wife finished her degree. Currently I’m in the process of updating my resume and such.

What is your goto site for jobs?

And if you don’t use a job board / site, what methods do you use to find employers?

A bit of info about me: Developer for about 10 - 12 years professionally, C# and JS mostly, self-taught

Recently I have been looking to take back some of the time I spend on my commute. It's about two hours a day and my company doesn't support remote work unless you are an off-shore developer (for obvious reasons, the flights add up quickly from a daily commute).

I've been keeping an eye on WWR but I feel like I am getting analysis paralysis on what tech to learn or what to do to make myself stand out to employers.

For the people that have moved from on-site to a remote position recently, how did you stand out? Did you learning new languages / frameworks? What made you more appealing than others candidates from your view point?

I'm a software developer with around 12 years experience. Recently, I've started to learn more about security (pentesting specifically). My interest in security goes back to my teens, when I was involved in local 2600 groups. Rather than perusing security, I went into development because it seemed to be the easiest way to jump start my IT career without a degree.

I'm concerned that making the change will be tough since my experience is all development with a small amount of administration / devops. Currently I am studying for my OSCP and working through HTB machines.

For people that have made the transition from a developer into a security roll, do you have any advice? How did you go about it? Thank you!