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by scarface_74 502 days ago
I am 50. I have always had a strict policy of never doing two jobs or a “side hustle”. Whatever we can’t do from my working one job, we don’t do.

That means no open source work worrying about my GitHub profile, no BS “thought leadership” posts on LinkedIn. Nothing.

When I get off of work, I shut my computer down and live my life - exercising, travel, spending time with friends and family, etc.
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OptionOfT 501 days ago
That's a wonderful attitude. I'm the same. The stuff that's on my GitHub is there for me, I needed it and/or I wanted to contribute to it. It's not for visibility.

But with that I do feel that I've had a couple of jobs slip through the cracks. Not enough exposure.

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scarface_74 501 days ago
The truth about not doing open source work and a personal GitHub profile is kind of lie.

The department I worked for at AWS had a very easy to use open source approval process to open source work we did from scratch for a client as long as it didn’t have client information we could put it here after approval.

https://github.com/aws-samples

I was able to legally/ethically fork all of the work I submitted (MIT Licensed) to my own profile after I left. But, no one cared or even looked at my open source profile.

However, I was also a major contributor to a popular open source “AWS Solution” that was big in its niche.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/

That did lead to two interviews and one job offer in 2023 year.

Almost all of my projects and the “solution” are obsolete now. I was able to use most of them last year with some tweaking.

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Temporary_31337 502 days ago
Imagine if Amazon acted the same way- oh we already have 1 customer, we won’t bother with the next 6 billion because we have one shittty one already.
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scarface_74 502 days ago
What exactly is your point? I should be part of the “hustle culture” and work my main job and a have a side gig and sacrifice my free time?
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