@GossiTheDog I get that question a ton too, and the best answer I have is that I was the one willing to do the stuff nobody else wanted to do.
It doesn’t work anymore because everyone wants to be a “cybersecurity” professional, mostly because someone told them we get paid a ton.
I’d love to meet that someone and see where they’re getting their info, because from what I can see, we get paid the same as senior devs to do stuff that makes everyone’s job harder, and if we do it right nothing happens.