Look for contract work and agencies. Keep an eye open to local businesses that might need some help. I don’t know if the market supports this, but you can also

Look for contract work and agencies. Keep an eye open to local businesses that might need some help. I don’t know if the market supports this, but you can also find early stage startups to help out. Attend local tech meetups (esp if they are in person, and just talk shop with folks), and find out about any Hackerthons that might be going on. Make presentations; if you got completed projects, people are likely interested. Sign into local slack / discord communities You can also participate in open source projects. If you have projects from your tinkering that you don’t mind open sourcing, getting that out on github with some documentation explaining what you were trying to accomplish helps. You can spend a little bit of a time answering questions on Stack Overflow. If you are using more niche languages (such as Elixir), spend a little time answering questions there as well. Get links for that all on the CV.