Make Money Doing What You Love Jim Salter Technomancer, Mercenary Sysadmin, Small Business Owner Today's slides can be found at: http://openoid.net/presentations/ This presentation is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (C) 2017 jim@openoid.net

Ask Questions. You don’t need to wait ‘til the end. I’ve got 20 slides and 30 minutes: we’ve got time. Don’t be afraid to interrupt!

… but don’t get hung up on degrees and certs Stay in school kids! … but don’t get hung up on degrees and certs

Break the Cycle. You don’t need the job to get the work! You need the job to get the money. You need the expertise to get the job. You need the work to get the expertise. You don’t need the job to get the work!

What do you love? open source is more than just “developing software”. System administration? Technical writing? Graphic design? Infosec? … something new?

read. Read. READ. REEEEEAD! Books. Blogs. Sites. Social media. EVERYBODY needs to read. Read. READ. REEEEEAD! Books. Blogs. Sites. Social media.

write. Write. WRITE. WRIIIIIITE! your blog. medium. opensource.com. EVERYBODY needs to write. Write. WRITE. WRIIIIIITE! your blog. medium. opensource.com.

Friends. Meetups. User Groups. Conferences. EVERYBODY needs to talk. Talk. TALK. TAAAAAAALK! Friends. Meetups. User Groups. Conferences.

You encounter bugs. Yes, you do. Do something about it. EVERYBODY needs to File. Bug. Reports. You encounter bugs. Yes, you do. Do something about it.

EVERYBODY needs to Eat Your Own If what you do is awesome, why wouldn’t you use it? If you wouldn’t use it, why would anyone else?

Participate. EVERYBODY needs to Don’t just throw stuff over the wall. Build, create, modify, and enhance as part of a community.

Make noise. Do things. Use your real name! EVERYBODY needs to Be Google-able! Make noise. Do things. Use your real name! Enhance your brand!

Why am I doing that stuff? Communication is the #1 most needed and least satisfactory tech skillset. Resumes are for HR. Online presence is for hiring decision-makers. Networking isn’t just for Ethernet.

Stand at the Crossroads Papa Legba says that’s where the real power is. He’s not wrong. DevOps, BizOps, BizDev...

Tools of the Trade GiMP / Krita / Blender / LibreOffice DigitalOcean / Linode Github / Launchpad Wordpress / Mediawiki

Know Your Options Monster, Indeed, Dice, etc Talk to peers and mentors. Submit resumes. Go on interviews.

Money Isn’t Everything Especially “right now” money. Consider all factors.

Jobs are like dating (or even Tinder)

Work for Yourself … and don’t ever stop.

Questions? Jim Salter jim@openoid.net @jrssnet http://openoid.net/presentations/ CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0