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You 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
by blincoln 3y ago
You 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.