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Yes! Finally, a word — "breaker" — for my greatest talent, which I still haven't found a way to monetize in my 70 years and 8 months on the planet. I can unerringly and quickly find the FAIL point in most devices/methods/ideas/setups/systems/websites etc. in a savant-like fashion. Perhaps in the future I'll find someone who will pay me for my quirky skill.

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Software QA. Not particularly prestigious but the pay is passable, more so if you can code well enough to automate tests or dig into the codebase to isolate the bug.

Alas, I cannot code at all.

security related positions, such as application penetration testing, physical pen testing, etc. all require the "security mindset" which is essentially the skill of thinking adversarily and breaking things.

I'm thinking no decent company is gonna hire a geezer like me for any job like this.

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