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by fallat 1333 days ago
Not really man. Others may encourage you here but I'm going to give you the realistic hard answer. The best thing for you is to target companies and do contract work there. There are tons of bugs to fix, they just only pay within a company :)
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This is great advice. May as well try get hired in a contracting agency so they can allocate you to their clients and keep you with a steady stream of work. Most developers hate fixing bugs and would love to drop them on contractors.
You barely get credit for fixing bugs as a full-time developer within most organizations so the role of part-time bug specialist, although appealing to me as well, is a bit of a stretch.
Yeah that's my experience from a long career as well. People never appreciate what can't be seen. And if we make it more visible we get lambasted for "writing bugs", sigh.