Get into an industry that values Q/A a lot. Aerospace, rail, nuclear power plants. Q/A doesn't have to be a dead-end job, career-wise.

Go into security and turn that free bugreport into big budget bug bounties ;)

If you can find bugs in libraries used in IOS/Android or something, that's worth money and gives you the chance to increase security for millions (billions?) of people.

I have a similar thing with typos. Give me a page of printed text, and there's a surprisingly high chance I will spot a typo within the first few seconds of looking at the page, no matter where the typo occurs on the page.

(Might be confirmation bias, but I have been proofreading a lot of theses for my friends while in college, so it might be trained.)

Your superpower is both a blessing and a curse.

It's likely that your weekend projects are things you find interesting and it seems likely that the things you find interesting are bleeding edge. It's never going to get better. On the other hand, any good dev team would value someone who can not only find the bug, but patch it.

You need to get somewhere where using the latest and greatest is encouraged..

Yeah libraries are a different thing. I find bugs in python modules all the time.

Might make you suited to security consulting?

<quote>Does anybody know how can I turn this annoying superpower of mine into a job that is not basic Q/A? </quote> What would you say, if I told you that this superpower was not basic Q/A? because basic Q/A is what the compiler is passing, all the time. The part you meant with vigour was the <b>job</b> part right? how do you make somebody want your awesome enough to pay you a living wage? It's either apple or Intel, because they are the two people financially vested in llvm.

If you're the kind of programmer who inputs HTML into a comment system that doesn't support it...

I'm not in QA. You obviously head the snark department very well. Expect promotion, but alas, not much more pay.