Things Many People Find Too Obvious to Have Told You Already
&gt; Companies find it incredibly hard to reliably staff positions with hard-working generalists who operate autonomously and have high risk tolerances. This is not the modal employee, including at places which are justifiably proud of the skill&#x2F;diligence&#x2F;etc of their employees.<p>This one.  Every job I see when I go looking is 40+ hrs a week, likely with plenty of idle time and projects I don&#x27;t believe in.  Part of this is regional... my area is packed full of marketing jobs that I&#x27;m actively uninterested in.  Anyway, I&#x27;m starting to get the hang of selling myself to contract shops, and I think I&#x27;ve found some twinkles of hope.<p>But today I was told straight up that my resume wasn&#x27;t conventional enough, that it was too well-rounded.  After quite a few messages back and forth, I&#x27;m not even sure if they even looked at my portfolio.  They told me there was no money for me, because their funders were looking for someone more professional.  So I took this as a sign that maybe this wasn&#x27;t the job for me.  No need to go barking up the wrong tree.<p>In the game dev world, I&#x27;d probably be a &quot;technical artist&quot;, but even that doesn&#x27;t quite fit for me.  I&#x27;m like a &quot;fool of all trades, jack of some, maybe a master of one or two&quot;.  But it&#x27;s hard to find a job that motivates me and leaves me with adequate space&#x2F;time&#x2F;energy to keep myself sharp and alive.<p><i>If anyone knows of funding for a guy that makes creative, reusable web components, let me know</i>...  <i>edit</i>: <i>I just saw that vue.js is primarily funded by patreon.  that&#x27;s awesome!</i>