Yeah but there are jobs that actually do not involve only CRUD stuff but technically more advanced topics. But this might mean that other things at the place mi

Yeah but there are jobs that actually do not involve only CRUD stuff but technically more advanced topics. But this might mean that other things at the place might be less nice, like a remote location, not so nice office, not so good payment, unstable job, unstable working conditions. In my experience at least one of them matches. Also sometimes there might be the opportunity to take jobs at not to tech savvy companies but that might strive to offer you to work on technically interesting things and give you some freedom on that. That said, working at such places might give you inspiration for side projects. Non-inspiring job = not much inspiration for side projects - at least that's my experience. Also don't forget to believe in your self. Many of the cool projects are - when taking a closer look - more like stub projects. It has a really cool part but it's oftentimes incomplete. So no crazy technical skills are needed, it's more about interested, being ready to explore something new and being pragmatic about solving things...