[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...".