It is hard. If you get paid directly, it will be a low salary and you support lavish lifestyles of foundation directors and those who have made a career out of

It is hard. If you get paid directly, it will be a low salary and you support lavish lifestyles of foundation directors and those who have made a career out of running consultancy sweat shops with 10% open source work for bait-and-switch hiring. If you work at a huge corporation that has vanity projects, expect churn, politics, infighting, useless initiatives for promotion and mediocre code quality.