Developer salaries vary like crazy, but $90k was pretty solid for me. Combined with my wife’s income and some Mustachianism it was plenty to save up

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Developer salaries vary like crazy, but $90k was pretty solid for me. Combined with my wife’s income and some Mustachianism it was plenty to save up a chunk of cash for a rainy day. (Or for a few months of working un-paid on open source lol - SPOILER ALERT 😬)

After needing a change of scenery, I left Tighten on January 11th, 2019 to go on a “sabbatical” (fancy word for “take a break and do whatever the hell I want“ 😛) and then start freelancing or something after a couple of months.

This day marked the abrupt end of my sabbatical. I was completely enamored with the project (now called Livewire) and couldn’t stop working on it full-time. (I’ve never stopped. I’m STILL enamored with it full-time.)

(I also created a pretty popular JS framework along the way called AlpineJS that I work on too, but that’s a story for another time…)

Believe it or not, open-source software doesn’t quite pay the bills, so I took on some small code mentorship clients to stay above the water for the entire year of 2019.