I really don't have the time to contribute to OSS, and I have no shame in saying I don't have any interest either. I don't know how people find the time to. I really think you either have to be <20 years old living at your parent's house, or lacking your own ideas, or have enough disposable income to have time on your hands to do it (which is probably the majority). And then you need to really be interested in doing it. It's for a very, very small subset of coders.

I went totally broke learning to code. Now I have to donate my time to OSS? Something is backwards

If I had the time to be writing code, I would be building out a backlist of ideas I personally have.

Thanks for the input though