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Why be jealous and only feel bad about it? Let the envy motivate you to create great things! There are a million tiny hobby project ideas out there that you hav
by TazeTSchnitzel 3y ago
Why be jealous and only feel bad about it? Let the envy motivate you to create great things! There are a million tiny hobby project ideas out there that you have the power in your hands to actualise.
- blincoln 3y agoYou never know where such things will lead, either. I did reverse-engineering as a hobby for years because it was a personal interest, then eventually switched careers to information security partly because of that background. No one is ever likely to make a living reverse-engineering 30-year-old ROM-flashing utilities, just like no one is likely to make a living figuring out how to convert early-2000s console game data to standard formats, but that kind of hobby project builds skills that are uncommon and useful in certain lines of work.
- rmilk 3y agoPrecisely. I have been told I have a knack for reading other people’s code. Turns out it was years of reverse engineering as a hobby in my youth that gave me the skills to sit down and understand someone else’s code very quickly. A hobby that gives useful real-world skills.