[nowarninglabel]

Sound like you are on the right track, and increasing your technical chops is definitely a good way to get to where you want to be or to at least give a better impression to potential future partners.

That said, sounds like from this line:

>I want to make sure if I do leave my job it's the right thing to do and that I don't spend months without an income and end up with nothing to show for it.

..that you are not ready to quit your job yet. It's a fairly high probability that this is exactly what will happen. If you aren't comfortable with that fact, then you don't have the risk tolerance necessary to go for this. At the least though, I can say that if you do go through with it, no matter the outcome, I highly doubt you will think you 'wasted your time'. If you look at the report-backs on HN of those who have failed, almost everyone has learned some skills and life lessons that made up for the experience.

[jaypreneur]

Hmm... I guess I have to just think about what I meant by "nothing to show for it" to really think as to if I'll be okay leaving my job now and then looking back at what I accomplished. I think the way I worded it was too vague.

I realize I won't be raking in money or something. Hell, perhaps I won't even have my MVP close to implemented after those months. However, I'm completely content if I feel that I've made good progress in terms of my learning to code and being close to my goal of creating an MVP (which is really my main goal right now, learning to code being the path to that).

I guess I just want advice from you guys, as hackers, to someone who can just do HTML and CSS. Is it worthwhile to leave my job to learn code. Can I ever be proficient enough for a future tech co-founder or investor to care?

I guess if I learn enough to create MVP and gain traction, then that answers my question. Thanks for that reply, it helped me think that phrase through a little clearer. If I decide to leave, I'll have to keep my expectations on my accomplishments reasonable.