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Here's what I do. Find employees using LinkedIn, find their GitHub profile and any projects they're doing that I find interesting. Create a good pull-request. After it's accepted, I send a follow-up saying I'm looking for work and asking if they'd pass on my CV. I only do PR for projects that interest me anyway, so it's not time-wasting as I'd do Open Source work anyway. This approach hasn't actually got me a remote-…
I'm just curious how much money you have made with that technique? Most places I have worked that pay anything decent don't host public code on github. It seems like great advice until I stopped and thought about it and realized that. Is there really any money in open source work if you're not tied to some major company like Google who is paying your salary?
I suspect the time would be better spent elsewhere, probably face-to-face networking if I had to choose one thing.
Here's a question I'm trying to understand: if I intend to travel while working, where do I say I'm "from"? How do taxes work? Suppose that I have an apartment in some country, not necessarily my country of citizenship, and I will sublet it while I travel. I suppose, to freelance, one needs to create a "company", but where is that company based? Does it need to have an address? If I am a citizen of one country, a res…
American digital nomad (not an accountant) here that transitioned an on-site w2 job in SF to full remote. state taxes: I initially moved to FL where there is no state income tax. I have a FL driver's license and mailing address. In FL, you do not have to file anything. federal taxes: I will qualify for FEIE [0] by being outside of the USA for the qualifying amount of time which basically means I do not have to pay fe…
From that link https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...:
2. Is your tax home* in a foreign country? ... b. No. You CANNOT claim the foreign earned income exclusion, the foreign housing exclusion, or the foreign housing deduction.
* Tax home: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
"Your tax home is the general area of your main place of business, employment, or post of duty, regardless of where you maintain your family home. ... You are not considered to have a tax home in a foreign country for any period in which your abode is in the United States."
The separate "physical presence outside the US for 330 days/year" is a later criterion, and is not relevant if your "tax home" is in the US.
Here's a question I'm trying to understand: if I intend to travel while working, where do I say I'm "from"? How do taxes work? Suppose that I have an apartment in some country, not necessarily my country of citizenship, and I will sublet it while I travel. I suppose, to freelance, one needs to create a "company", but where is that company based? Does it need to have an address? If I am a citizen of one country, a res…
Countries usually specify at what point you owe them money. You can live in Tijuana, Mexico and commute to San Diego, California every day and won't owe anything to the IRS (as long as you are not a citizen or permanent resident). Now, getting your employer to pay you without withholding US taxes is another story, not many employers have experience with this. Not sure if you are supposed to file for a tax return at t…
"Your tax home is the general area of your main place of business, employment, or post of duty, regardless of where you maintain your family home. "
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...