You can specify multiple GOPATHs which will be searched in order for packages; Your GOPATH could be set to "~/libs/go:~/code/work for work/contracting/go:~code

You can specify multiple GOPATHs which will be searched in order for packages; Your GOPATH could be set to "~/libs/go:~/code/work for work/contracting/go:~code/personal:~/code/third-party" which would put any go-get libaries into ~/libs/go and allow using packages from the other folders. Keep in mind that Go will still use these Gopaths like any other Gopath repository; create a src/pkg/bin folder set for use with the compiler