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Also you've mentioned github sponsors. Did not know about that program. It is severely restricted by small list of countries. Seems unfair as so many people contribute through github but looks like large chunk is unable to apply for this type of sponsorship because of location. Frankly I am quite disappointed with such policy.
Is there a website out there where I can find content I can sponsor?
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Except major cities like London, Paris, Dublin where it is somewhere around 'table stakes'.
I've lived and worked in two of those cities (and one other almost as expensive european city) for much less than $100k/year. It's a pretty comfortable lifestyle from about $50k upwards.
Personally I can think of a plenty of other places I'd rather live in where you could truly live well on that kind of money.
Source: I live in the first of those on a similar salary.
$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.
$100k iS sTiLl NoT eVeN cLoSe To HoW mUcH yOu CaN mAkE iN sV aS aN eNgInEeR
jokes aside, you can do even more money with less taxes in the united arab emirates.
So, when are you moving?
Hopefully this story will help tone deaf people to make the right decision next time.
Wow, that's a huge inspiration. I've been sitting on GitHub sponsorship setup for htmx, but this motivates me to get that done. It would be amazing to work on a passion project and get paid for it.
I think a lot depends on luck, and the kind of repositories you manage/create. Some projects are obviously more commercially useful than others, and those are the easier ones to receive income from.
$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.
First, I think you're overestimating how much you can make as an engineer in SV. It's more, but it's not fair to say $100k is "not even close". Second, there's more to life than working at, say, Facebook/Netflix/etc for money. The pure happiness of working on something you care about is worth a lot of money to some people. Third, if this person ever wants to get a real job, the $100k won't go away, and they'll easily…
It's true the $100k doesn't immediately disappear, but it seems safe to assume that taking on a full time job would leave a lot less time to do OSS work and would probably result in a non-trivial loss of sponsorship.