I used to work as a developer, but found it unrewarding and stressful. Now I work in software vulnerability research, and I genuinely enjoy every day of it. I'

I used to work as a developer, but found it unrewarding and stressful. Now I work in software vulnerability research, and I genuinely enjoy every day of it. I've always been more of an explorer than a creator, so picking apart systems to understand their internal workings, and making a living off this, is pretty much my dream job. I still do some development, like writing tooling, and proof of concept code to demonstrate vulnerabilities, so having that skill in my back pocket really helps there too. Getting hired was fairly straightforward, I contacted a recruiter who is very well-regarded in this niche. He sorted me out for my last few jobs. Interviews have ranged from basically a chat about previous experience, to being sat down with an assembly code listing and asked to point out any vulnerabilities present in the code.