Well said. I completely empathized with your sentiment. So much so that I had to write more in response them what is probably appropriate in a comment section.

I commit to small one-off projects for friends, longer-term work with acquaintances, and whip up my own projects all the time. Sometimes the projects are freelance, and sometimes they are simply "free." All this serves to satiate the needling feeling in the back of my brain that I might just be missing out on something.

Here's the rest of my thoughts: http://blog.glenelkins.com/the-over-committers-dilemma/