I guess to approach this from another angle, I just had a chat with one of the senior tech leads at the corporation I work for (140k+ employees). He said that s

I guess to approach this from another angle, I just had a chat with one of the senior tech leads at the corporation I work for (140k+ employees). He said that several of the developers he worked with moved on to do completely different things in the years following a project built about a decade ago. One went on to be an instructor of some sort, another a farmer. My realtor worked in the same place I did writing HTML and Cobol before she got so burnt out she became a realtor. That was 8 years ago. There's no limit to what you can do, both as a developer and outside the tech realm. Hackers are not just technical. Hacking can be anything you make it. Good luck, and I hope you find your passion. :)