[mh2266]

not to be excessively flippant or dismissive, but: just stop? if open-source is a hobby rather than a paid job (e.g. you do not work on the React team at Meta or other equivalent), and you are not enjoying it, then why are you doing it? choose a different hobby!

if you feel like the quotations in this article, e.g. this one:

> I don’t feel like working on [it] anymore. It went from being one of the most fun experiences in my life to making me feel terrible everyday.

why are you doing it? stop! go outside, go for a hike, get a bike, train for a marathon, play video games... anything but writing code you're not paid to write that is making you miserable.

[eikenberry]

Open source can be a hobby, but is can also be a portfolio. So not a paid job, but a way to get paid jobs. Tech interviewing is so incredibly broken that you really need every option working for you and cannot necessarily afford to "just stop".