If you happen to find a job which has a small open source component, the for-pay public work you do for job n can help you land job n+1. I agree that hundreds

If you happen to find a job which has a small open source component, the for-pay public work you do for job n can help you land job n+1. I agree that hundreds of hours of non-paid work is not a reasonable thing to expect of IT workers. But TFA's message has worked for me for landing several jobs.