I haven't been paid for doing open source software work, per se (yet), but I've been told multiple times by people who contacted me for work, that they got to k

I haven't been paid for doing open source software work, per se (yet), but I've been told multiple times by people who contacted me for work, that they got to know about me via my open source projects or posts about it, and some of those contacts have turned into contracts for work. So in my experience, open source work is worthwhile both for itself and for those side effects.