[ingenieroariel]

When me and my gf got pregnant I was part of a startup and was contributing to random hacking groups for burning man, music festivals, etc.

What happened was that I stopped doing anything that did not pay me and started working all my hours on the most profitable and constant stream of work (in my case a 20 hours a week gig for $20usd an hour while working from Colombia where minimum wage was $2 usd an hour at the time). In my young mind this was the equivalent of kind of failing: not doing the most interesting stuff and just going for the money.

But this worked out pretty well, all of the sudden the Django skills that I had got in 2007 doing not for profit projects were in full demand in Enterprise by 2012 and onwards and I got to $60, $80, $100, $120 usd an hour as I did more specific projects for bigger clients.

Short version: Go for the boring stable job because the most important thing is providing roof and food for your family. It will work out, God permitting.