Bug Bounty Hunting is Making Me Fat
Ok hear me out. I used to be a software engineer before I switched to bug bounty hunting a month ago. The work was goal oriented with clear signals of progress. I built systems, coded API features or made games. All of that gave me slow but sustainable hits of dopamine.
But this new line of work is open ended and doesn't give me any clue whether I'm making any progress. Unlike previous job, where I wrote the code and instantly saw the result, here feedback loop is painfully slow. There is no dopamine I need to sustain my motivation, making the whole process stressful. I only get one big hit of dopamine every other week.
It's hard to sustain my motivation without food to numb my feeling of making zero progress. I need to chug a liter of coffee a day or snack on peanuts or dark chocolate at all times to get me going.
Is health the price of admission? Will I ever reach a point where I don't need food to sustain motivation?