Is It Worth Quitting 9–5 Job For a Full-Time Bug Bounty In 2024?🤔💻

3 min readJan 22, 2024

Hi, Ajak Amico’s welcome back to another blog today. So many people ask me whether can do full-time bug bounty as a career. In this blog, I will provide a clear understanding of whether to take bug bounty full-time.

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Are you a School or University Student Right now?

If you are currently in school or university, you might be around 16–24 right now. If you are within this age range, you can close your eyes and jump into bug bounty as a full-time endeavour because, at this point, you won’t have any significant commitments other than studying. It will be a very good part-time pursuit as a student, and all the bugs you find out will definitely help you boost your resume when you step into cybersecurity jobs

Advantages of Bug Bounty as a Teenager

Making money just with your laptop
No pressure, since its independent work
learning all the cyber security skills, before landing on any cyber security jobs

Dis-Advantages of Bug Bounty as a Teenager

Learn And Earn But Unstable Income

Have you completed your degree or Family Man??

When you have completed your degree, you step into the real world, you will start to have commitments, you need to take care of your family, you need to start earning money so you can’t fully rely on full-time bug bounty.

Advantages of Bug Bounty as a Family Man

You will have the flexibility to work, anytime anywhere.
You can balance your work life.
No working for anybody, you work for yourself,

Dis-Advantages of Bug Bounty as a Teenager

Unstable income
High competitive environment (Drastic crowd)
Times you feel and get isolated.
You get frustrated with duplicates

Tips to become a Full-time bug bounty hunter

Guys, I am not here to scare anybody who wants to take bug bounty full-time. Based on your family’s financial situation, you can choose this profession, but taking it full-time has a lot of opportunities as well. You can start to earn money via different strategies.

You can start to earn money via different strategies.
You can publish blogs and start earning money.
You can teach people by creating your bug bounty course.
You can take freelancing services, via Upwork, to earn money.
You can build a strong network and increase your chances of getting more private programs.
You can give paid seminar talks via online or offline platforms.
You can definitely improve your overall reputation in your community.