I can see two sides of this here: Negative: you're considering changing career, seems like you don't really love hacking. It's really hard to be a great hacker

I can see two sides of this here: Negative: you're considering changing career, seems like you don't really love hacking. It's really hard to be a great hacker if you don't love it. Positive: You want to learn. A key ingredient to becoming a great hacker is being keen to learn new techniques, practise them, and admitting that there are better ways to do it than the way you are doing it now.