CommunityWriterPrograms VS wallaby

You could try writing blog posts for a company[1]. I haven't done this but I know people who have. It's crazy what some companies pay for such low-quality content sometimes.

[1] https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

Community Writer Programs

Applying for jobs has to be the biggest headache for technical writers. There are lots of writing and guest author programs here for technical writers to apply to. There are also Paid Community Programs and Community Writer Programs carefully curated for writers.

There are so many great resources to learn about technical writing. Such as Emy’s article about “Starting Out With Technical Writing”, Yuri’s curated list of technical writing resources and Bonnie’s own book and resources to technical writing and Daniel’s GitHub repo which contains lists of paid technical resources.

Several platforms exist that pay developers for composing articles and or tutorials. A list of such writer programs can be found at here.

Community Writer Programs

Definitely doesn't pay like software development does, but I've been doing it the past year and it's a nice change of pace. I started by doing blog posts for companies in this list: https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

To piggy back of what @mooreds said, here's a big list of community writing programs that pay software engineers to write blog posts: https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

Depending on your expertise and writing skills, they can pay pretty well.

malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms – A list of Developer Community Writer Programs.

I don't think anyone has mentioned the option of freelance technical writing:

https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

In the process of doing this type of work, you surely will learn new things and probably will help you figure out exactly what you might want to focus on / become an expert at / etc. You'll come to understand systems from a user's perspective which always good for developers.

What about teaching English online or becoming a sales rep for a non-US company, being a native speaker is a big plus and there is plenty of business outside US. QA might also be a possibility with your resume - learn how to use Insomnia/Postman + Selenium + some more fancy tooling to impress, like https://github.com/elixir-wallaby/wallaby + being well organized should help.