I live in Germany and work for US companies, which is quite lucrative.

I only work a few months a year.

Are you a consultant? How specialized are you, and how do you find projects?

I'm blogging for 3 years now and wrote a book about React, so projects are mostly coming to me.

At the moment I try to make a living by blogging (mostly ghostwriting) less risk than software development, okay-ish pay and flexible work. I also got a teaching gig at a university here, teaching frontend and mobile development.

When I started, I found projects by simply looking online for offers and write emails to companies.

Mind elaborating on this?

With US payments Germany is rather cheap.

If you make >100€/hour and only need 20k€/year you can calculate how much hours you need to work a year to pay for everything.