Best job I interviewed was for up to $250+K&#x2F;year remotely. I didn&#x27;t get the job though (from stackoverflow).<p>I will hopefully soon have your problem too on upwork. My idea is to:<p>1. extreme specialization. Example: I like backend, high performance, low-level, databases (rdbms &amp; nosql). So I&#x27;ll probably go into lowe-level java&#x2F;c++&#x2F;c database coding. And then either contract on this or get a job Example: antirez gets a nice San Francisco wage coding full-time open-source redis.<p>2. startup
Different ideas. But if I get good at the low-level-high-performance-thing even something with that.