What skills do you want to get paid for? Start sharing projects you want to work on, skills you would love to deepen, how you want to contribute.
All of the best contracting and freelance work I have ever gotten came from contributing, doing the work myself and sharing what I was doing, and others said "Hey, I could use someone like you to help me do that too!".
In Bitcoin terms, focus on the proof of work, not the block reward. This is all my opinion, but comes from experience.