A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021)
I have never spoken about this publicly but I found a contract job that paid about $4k for the project a few years ago. It required me hosting a secure database for a couple months and was a run-of-the-mill django project.<p>I coded it up, ran the project and got paid. I put back 30% for taxes and paid the AWS hosting bills (mostly for RDS) of about $500 and gave the rest to someone who was battling cancer. I gave it to them personally, in cash, in all 1&#x27;s as a joke. It was pretty cool to see over $2,000 in singles packaged up in money transport ziplocks put down in a gift bag. They thought I was giving them a brick as a joke.<p>I tell you what - it made me feel like I was on top of the world.<p>I look back on it and I kind of wish I had figured out how to eat the taxes and give all of it except the hosting costs (I didn&#x27;t have a ton of expendable income at the time).<p>Reading this story and thinking about them seeing the tax bill reminded me of this. Kudos to them for being able to give all of it on to worthwhile causes. I bet they felt amazing. It is so nice to be able to do something for someone.