[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