My situation is pretty much like yours. I do not particularly dislike my current job but I would much rather prefer to work on Bitcoin full time. However, I'm not actively looking for a job in the industry yet.

Instead, I've recently decided to dedicate some of my spare time to contribute to open source projects (there are a lot of great ones out there) and to work on some personal ones (that I will hopefully be able to release soon), all related to Bitcoin and Lightning. So far it has been a lot of fun and I've learnt a lot as well.

I do recommend to start experimenting and playing with a full Bitcoin+Lightning node if you haven't yet, as it helps you understand how everything works in practice and to discover potential use cases or points to improve that no ones has found or cared to exploit/fix yet. If you can't land a job that focuses on Bitcoin, why don't you try creating it? :)

I'm also alone in this journey and doing anonymous contributions with one-time-use accounts didn't help much in that regard, so I decided I would make them all under the same nickname, which may help developing a "relationship" with other people in the space (the downside is you have to be really careful not to leak any personally identifiable information).

Also, joining development or node runners communities/chats has helped me relate to other bitcoiners and discuss many topics with them.