From making your first PR, whether a small typo fix or fixing a test flake, to becoming a maintainer and beyond, how do you do this without burning out? Every project has different contribution ladders to promote users to different statuses, but once a maintainer there is a struggle to juggle reviews, meetings, community and code. Learning how to sustainably maintain an open source project without catching your brain on fire is a skill. We'll cover lessons learned from maintainers and models to implement within projects to keep all maintainers sane.