Gonna poll #privacy and #compliance folks here as well. This was originally posted on Twitter.
I'm reading a lot on how having a lack of impact in one's job leads to feelings of pointlessness, despair and burnout (or as Emmett Shear calls it, 'Broken Steering' or says feeling like a 'dust banana'.)
I have written about how I have largely moved away from a DPO role for this very reason: careylening.substack.co…
In a related thread, the author over at (liminalwarmth.substack.…) adds to this with the observation that many of us in knowledge work are effectively paid to sit around and wait for crises, and that a large % of the work we actually do is invented to help people avoid thinking about all the hurry-up-and-waiting we engage in. I saw this a lot as a #DPO, and likened it to generating 'symbolic representations of the thing' rather than the thing itself. (a term I shamelessly stole from )
But I wonder - is that just me? Is it just me who doesn't see #impact in compliance, or do others share that sentiment? If you're in #compliance (#dataprotection #security #risk #KYC etc) do you find impact and value in your role? If so, tell me! I want to know more.
Twitter poll is here: twitter.com/PrivaCat/st…
Feel free to comment or chat, assuming I can figure out how to set up chats.