[ganstyles]

I worked with some insanely smart individuals good at RE, and they describe it as a slog where you don't know how much, if any, progress one is making on REing something until you have a breakthrough. And then you don't know how much longer until the nest breakthrough. Ad infinitum. OTOH I know web app vulnerability researchers and they describe their job as going through the OWASP Top 10 and trying to find vulnerabilities. Sounds like the latter requires significantly fewer hard skills and you get more frequent intellectual reward.