Every time I tell someone I work with computers, they light up. " That's so cool ," they say. For a long time, I didn't get why. Most of my actual day looks like this : staring at a screen, stuck on something that'll take hours, sometimes days, to figure out. Not exactly cinematic. People picture me hacking Netflix passwords or dodging the FBI, straight out of a movie. The reality is a lot less exciting — and a lot more satisfying, honestly, once you get to the good part. Because wh...