My dream job is to build software for the federal government that is used by regular Americans to completely dispel a mythology in place long before I was born that government is inoperably incompetent and nothing can ever work. I just want to solve the boring problems that everyone else has deemed not worth their time. Vote online. Free file taxes.
Just to throw ideas around: on Fedi you might be able to find enough people in a small town in the US like Échirolles in France where you could have a job helping the town council convert to FOSS. Probably more software education, teaching about posting bug reports/issues, and some software adaptation, than writing code. Depends if such a town exists in the US. Later try for county, state, federal govt agencies?
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