So what's stopping you, an experienced developer to get a real life job? With the number of skills you bring to the table, you should be easily hired as a Senior Developer in any good organization. I don't know why bitcointalk is even your preference when you have dedicated hiring portals. It's a different thing if you just to look for freelance deals.
In my country in crisis and payments too low also most time even not get salary. For now best choise for mine find job outside of my country. That why im writing here, also my experiences moslty about cryptocurrency.
Mind to know on which country you do live on?Skip it out if its too personal but its impossible for developing skills to have low payments.
You had already post out on this forum,do you have some sort of portfolio to show off? You can also post on freelancing sites like
https://www.xbtfreelancer.com/There are tons who are seeking of such skills.