Hi all

I’ve been working as a software developer for the past few years and frequently decided to leave a company/project myself because I could not find the motivation to keep working for it.

First, I was questioning whether software development was really for me. But in my spare time, I still enjoyed writing small useful tools, configuring my linux desktop and self-hosting.

I recently realised that my demotivation is mostly due to the kind of software I was working on for the companies I worked for. Usually building APIs to facilitate sales/marketing for products I don’t really care for. Or configuring some unnecessarily complicated ERP/CRM microsoft stack.

Instead, I would like to work on software that I use myself. Or at least on something that will useful for other people in the future, not just boost the sales of some company.

But I’m not sure where to look. It seems like jobs focusing on free/libre software are difficult to find (Or I don’t know how to look) and the few I find seem to be looking for senior profiles much more experienced than me.

Anybody have some tips or places I can start looking? Honesly I would prefer to just contribute to some project for free, but I don’t really have the option to do so at the moment.

Thanks!

  • whoareu
    2·
    6 months ago

    I don’t think there is any other way besides relying on donation from your users and that’s difficult look how much Lemmy gets donations. you can try to get a job at companies that work on open source project like opensuse, redhat or canonical.

    • NationProtons@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, relying on donations is not that easy. I feel like it’s more like top athletes: Only the top performers can live on it, for all others it’s usually not enough to survive.