[punnned]

"but my life is miserable".

Why are you settling for that? You may think the easiest option now is to stay where you are. Sure it's stable but this is probably the best time to actually give your entrepreneurial dreams a shot!

Sure you won't be getting that paycheck but you're not needing that much money at the moment anyway. Plus you still live with your parents so you don't have to worry about rent, food etc. You'll still live.

++ You are still young, in your 20's. It's so much harder to make that plunge when you're 30,40 if you have a mortgage to pay off or a family to support.

What's the worst thing that can happen? You build some cool apps, try to make a business out of them but don't get enough traction? So what? You've taken a correct path in your career by doing something you enjoy. You can always go back to corporate. Plus you tend to meet so many more people if you really immerse yourself in the whole entrepreneurship community.

Take a big breath, quit your job and go do the stuff that makes you tick. By the sounds of it, you're in a pretty good situation to do so right now.

[dacort]

+1 for these comments as well. Better to do something crazy now, knowing you can always fall back and recoup your losses, rather than finding yourself down the road with more serious responsibilities you can't ignore at the same job hating yourself/wondering what could have been.

[mrchess]

Thanks. I think one of my biggest fears I have is the impression that once you leave corporate you can't go back (or it is much harder to go back). Is this even remotely true?

[punnned]

As long as you keep developing your own skills as a hacker, you'll still be a valuable hire for any corporate. Experience is experience - whether it be at someone else's company or your own.

[iworkforthem]

As long as you have the skillsets that corporate require, they are mostly likely to hire you back. Not to worry, I quit my job some time back in 2006 to start a biz, failed, got a job, my pay was increased by 20%.

As long as you are young with no major liability like loans or credit cards debts, you should really just do it now! You never know, later on in life there will be family commitments, housing loans, insurance, etc. Definitely more restrictive.

I would definitely do it again. Soon actually... hibernate mode