I’ve been in the business for about 25 years. I have a hard time recommending people jump in at this point, or at least to understand the market now. While there is constant talk of “unfilled cyber jobs”, the reality is that many people with experience are struggling to find a job in the field.

If you can get in and find a stable spot at a good company, it’s a great career, but those are getting hard to find I fear. Anyhow, please do a bit of reading about the job market for cyber security before making a decision.

How has no one mentioned medical coder? It’s an admin job that prefers a medical background. You can get a full degree or just get certified. Your job may even pay for training depending on the facility.

If you already have medical knowledge, why not look into bioinformatics? Cyber security would be a pretty big jump if you’re not into tweaking computers as a hobby. For example, have you ever set up Linux on your own?

Certifications will give you a starting point, but it will take years for all the information to settle properly in your mind.

Are you a computer nerd in your spare time / highly technical ?

Honestly if you are looking to move to Canada, they are desperately looking for Nurses especially out in Eastern Canada like Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Immigration is being tightened right now, but if you already have a degree and looking to get recertified here its a good starting point.

Source: lived in Halifax for 5 years and know a connection or two in that industry

AFAIK, career wise it’s more about what you want. You’ll be in a stable workplace with cyber but there are some reports that the software world is closing up, that getting a job is harder.

Nursing is just always in demand.

Also if you’re going to do cyber you don’t need a degree to start. There are online classes on network security and such you can use to study for your first certification. That’s the key point to get hired. A degree would help long term but moving up requires further certification, not necessarily a degree.

I would stay with nursing. You can go anywhere with it, and you can never be replaced by a computer.

I don’t think so. You need to get a large amount of training before you can make a comparable salary, and if you do get a high paying cyber security job there’s still a good chance of it being stressful. You can see if you like it using the free tier of try hack me, and if you love it and can afford to take the paycut it might make sense but you are probably better off finding a way to use your existing skills than aquiring new ones

Stanford has a free introduction course. There is also edX.

Now, I’ve only taken an introduction into cybersecurity at a graduate level, and I will say it’s a difficult career path to master. I’m not saying that to dissuade you, but rather give you a reasonable expectation of the level of effort. But it’s a super fascinating area of computing, and it’s certainly not going away any time soon.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention Bioinfomatics where you could put your existing medical knowledge to use in a computing career.

You know this already, but the variety of jobs you can do with that RN is insane. If you don’t like the type of nursing your doing, switch to a different one. Look to admin, informatics, etc if you’re wanting more of an office job vs patient care.

Consider the direction the medical field is going, too: boomers are finally starting to retire, and as they phase deeper into the geriatric stage of life, they’re going to need more and more care. This means the supply end of nursing is going to turn down a notch, and the demand end is going to absolutely explode. If you’re sitting on a ton of experience, you’ve got some fucking PRIME wage negotiation potential - I’d flex that before bailing.

I have a CyberSecurity degree and I can’t get a job because I don’t have experience. This is only one person’s outcome and may or may not happen to you.

Help me, I can’t escape retail.

What’s the problem for you with nursing ?

Is it job insecurity or is it travel?

My understanding is that traveling nurses make very good money. Obviously there’s more to life than money though.

I’m sure you don’t have to leave medicine to make good money and have a different working arrangement. There are all sorts of alternative non-nursing jobs for nurses. How do you see there’s administration, insurance, consulting, or even just continuing to search for the situation that you want.

The question is not would it be more beneficial, it’s what do you want to do? Do you want to be a nurse at all? Did you rush into it because a guidance counselor told you it’s a great career path?

I have two friends in cyber security and I could not tell you what they do but they both seem to make very good money without working very hard, but they’ve both also been computer nerds since the 90’s.