Go lower in the stack and wait. Wait is the keyword here because some people can't hold on to tech for a couple more years without income. There is a lot of st

Go lower in the stack and wait. Wait is the keyword here because some people can't hold on to tech for a couple more years without income. There is a lot of stuff (packages/crate/repos) going unmaintained. It used to be hard to make an open source contribution in 2015-2021 as it was competitive and it brought resume value. That is no longer the case. Also lots of companies stopped their open source contributions/paid staff working on OSS. The only open source going on now is the one that monetizes the company bottom line. In 1-2 year lots of stuff will start breaking and companies will need people to fix this stuff. Eventually they'll start hiring again whether full time, part time, freelance you name it.