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What does he normally do full-time?

I know, right?

Ahem. All kinds of things, maintaining a bunch of open source libraries and tools (https://github.com/shazow), bootstrapping a service that emails you analytics summaries (https://briefmetrics.com/), building random apps that I happen to need (a partial list on http://shazow.net/).

I suspect your underlying question was whether I am employed full-time—I am not.

I wish I could sponsor your next two weeks. Let's hope that Stripe's initiative catches on with others.

Thanks! :) Until you have corporate funds to back a bigger project, little ad-hoc donations are also appreciated:

https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#sponsorship

Well, I was wondering how you make a living if you don't get contracts/contributions like this. Not to pry too much but I guess the services you set up are actually profitable or do you have to support yourself by contracting?

I have begun freelancing myself and find that I have a lot more time for my own projects and open-source contributions. Still, sometimes I wish I could drop the contracting all together.

I'd love to one day have something that I created or contributed to, in my own time, be popular enough to get hired to work on it.

For much of the time I've been employed full-time (you can find my resume in the footer of http://shazow.net/), which made maintaining open source stuff that much harder. I've saved up money and reduced expenses to allow myself to take time to work on other things.

Some of my projects are bringing in money, but not enough to cover my living expenses. Occasionally I'll take on a contract.

Apparently a lot — http://shazow.net/

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