[daleholborow]

Hi there. I am unfortunately based in Helsinki and so cannot offer you any opportunities - but I would like to offer some advice. You are (in my opinion) crazy to spend more money, especially to work for someone else - if you have 10K and 7 months and want to go full time.. take your laptop to a coffee shop, and build yourself an app.. start dirt simple, iterate... make yourself a website, put up sample pieces... even try to build a real MVP of some product... go to meetup.com or similar events for other IT dudes and see what they are working on. Volunteer to help. Get your hands dirty that way? Good luck!

[daleholborow]

To continue: you are thinking of yourself as in a weak position (and I can both understand and sympathize having been in a couple rough patches myself before), but ask yourself which you think sounds better, to a future employer: "I spent my own money to work for someone else" vs "I spent 7 months working on an MVP for this little idea I had... you know, it never turned out as a big success, but I had fun and I learned a lot as I worked with x,y, z other people that I found in similar community...".