I had my dream job awhile back, where I was paid to work full time on my own open source project. Essentially my employer was offering the software to customers

I had my dream job awhile back, where I was paid to work full time on my own open source project. Essentially my employer was offering the software to customers, and they wanted to make sure it was maintained. It was easygoing, I set my own roadmaps, and I had the freedom to contribute to struggling third-party dependencies as needed (I felt like an open source superman, swooping in). This job lasted for several years until I quit to pursue startup life. I'm currently the founder of my own funded company, which in a way sounds like a dream job too, but because there are a lot of non-coding distractions and also huge stress levels, I don't think it's really the same. The cushy open source gig was the dream job. :) Maybe after I'm "successful" I'll go back to that.