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It's funny how incredibly highly the money and success narrative is emphasized in the news, and the drug-like high aspect of the work is rarely mentioned. The t
by tw1010 8y ago
It's funny how incredibly highly the money and success narrative is emphasized in the news, and the drug-like high aspect of the work is rarely mentioned. The truth is that a lot of us would do it (and do do it) for free, and the high demand aspect of it is to a large extent just a blessing on the side.
- qop 8y agoI started for the glory. Refurbishing keygens and writing ddos perl scripts for irssi. But the more I learned, the bigger the problems I want to solve, (and create, in some cases) and that drove me to become more dedicated to the discipline of it all. I'm blessed to have the opportunity to do contracts or work a 9-5 with my skillset, and I can basically live whatever lifestyle I can afford that way. But yeah, even if I was getting paid 1/5 of what I have now, as long as I can spend my days browsing through disassembly, outsmarting someone, I'd still show up.