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Possible to make career in free software? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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I'm a computer engineering undergrad in my finals and I really don't care about applying for jobs, there's so much competition and I hate just about every one of my classmates. I don't want to spend hours making shitty bloated proprietary software but 99% of jobs seem to be like that. Is it possible to actually make a career in free software, should I just ditch out of tech and pick something else

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I have no experience making free software or even just software for a living. What I do have experience in is making a living in a historically cruel and enshittified industry while staying true to my values.

So in order of complicatedness (low to high):

work at shitty company and make enough
work at shitty company and make bank
work at less shitty company
work self employed for multiple companies
make own company that is not shitty