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Re:GitHub stars won’t pay your rent by therealmarv on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @11:30AM (#20686767)
I will tell you a secret: There are corporate and non-profit organizations out there which want to you to write open source software and they pay you for it (I know it's shocking).
Re:GitHub stars won’t pay your rent by alexellisuk on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:18AM (#20693877)
Dozens of open jobs at VMware for professional / career Open Source positions: https://careers.vmware.com/search-jobs/Open%20Source%20Engin...

Big companies have an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) where community / OSS skills and licensing knowledge mean you can help the company both consume OSS and contribute back to it.