How did you communicate to your employer that you have outside interests/pursuits that have nothing to do with the company? Along the same lines, how do you manage your time between your day job, your OSS maintenance, and your other interests?
Sean Larkin is an award winning public speaker, giving talks all over the world on webpack, JavaScript, and web perf. Currently he is a SWE at Microsoft managing Web Infra for OneDrive/Sharepoint
When I was at Mutual of Omaha, I was very up front with them about my passion for maintaining webpack, working on open source, and speaking at conferences.
Because of that honesty I think that they were more flexible and generous with the amount of time I could spend on OSS and speaking.
How do I manage my time? Honestly I don't whatsoever. There are some days I feel I'm constantly under water. (Which may sound scary, but in fact, it's an open source authors greatest asset for new contributors as long as you work hard no matter what you do). If people see me drowning, they always reach out their hand. Many of our most active contributors we're drawn to us this way.
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How did you communicate to your employer that you have outside interests/pursuits that have nothing to do with the company? Along the same lines, how do you manage your time between your day job, your OSS maintenance, and your other interests?
When I was at Mutual of Omaha, I was very up front with them about my passion for maintaining webpack, working on open source, and speaking at conferences.
Because of that honesty I think that they were more flexible and generous with the amount of time I could spend on OSS and speaking.
How do I manage my time? Honestly I don't whatsoever. There are some days I feel I'm constantly under water. (Which may sound scary, but in fact, it's an open source authors greatest asset for new contributors as long as you work hard no matter what you do). If people see me drowning, they always reach out their hand. Many of our most active contributors we're drawn to us this way.