Get found by people who are impressed with your work. That might mean posting on twitter or reddit or posting your work here on HN. But it also might mean join

Get found by people who are impressed with your work. That might mean posting on twitter or reddit or posting your work here on HN. But it also might mean joining some small semi-private communities and sharing your journey there. Once you find people are engaged and interested in what you're doing you can figure out what's externally fulfilling to others and find out what others might pay you to do. And this can definitely be done in the context of getting a job. Not applying to open jobs but finding people who are currently hiring or in a large org that can point you in the right direction.