Gregory's Server@jsbarretto it's sort of the opposite for me. My "great benefits to society have probably been OSS contributions, but definitely stuff I only did because of the day job. Contributing to csv libraries, logging libraries, documenting something in #appveyor that the author didn't know, Microsoft documentation, etc. And a few stackoverflow questions and answers.
More people have been impacted by all that than all the things I did for fortune 500 companies
@zippy1981 I wish more employers were willing to let their employees work on contributing fixes upsteam. I guess it's more a feature of large companies where they can afford to not be aggressively goal-oriented.