I have about 3 years Java world (Tomcat/Webstorm + JEE + Oracle/PLSQL, and Spring, Hibernate all that jazz). And about 2 years in Node + Angular/React + AWS. My question was more how to get good rates and still do it as a part-time side gig since I work full time. I've already had offers for full time work :) Yeah, after talking with a bunch of people from this thread I _will_ be blogging/marketing my github profile/give lightning talks. For the moment, I'm trying to network as much as possible without sounding needy and putting in as much time as I can into open source to get experience, have something to show the world. My goal now is to become the expert of 1 or 2 domains in my local area so people are basically forced to notice me.