Apparently, not all developers participate in pro bono or opensource projects. You should, even if, like myself, you are an empty shell of a human being who gets no fuzzy feelings from helping others.
My last post explained that boring projects pay more. By this principle, which shall hereby be dubbed The Law of Life Sucking, the most exciting projects are those that pay nothing. You see, it is unlikely that you will be badgered to hurry up on a pro bono project. In the absence of tight deadlines, you can learn how to perfectly plan and execute a project. You can play with new technologies, utilities or libraries. You can scrap it and start from scratch. And then, you’ll know how to use those things for your paid projects, and you’ll earn more money, which will reassure you that you are, after all, a calculating, heartless soul.
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You definitely have something here, my dear. And, you are definitely NOT alone with this post. The system rarely let’s us soar to the extent that we would like. And for this reason, I would observe this is why the state-of-the-world is precarious at the moment, with a lot of misery for a lot of fellow humman beings. Haven’t you noticed that there’s quite a bit of “crisis management” all over the place. Our dilemma, I would humbly put forward, with respect to Web Dev and Programming in general, is the difficulty between the Public and Private domains. But, if you think about it, that’s a PhD thesis. Does this make any sense? Goes back to an earlier posting I made about Ror and “the herd”. Yet, your yearning(s) are what is best about the humman condition. And we need this “in spades” today! – very verbose here. Forgive me.