I worked on my first app next to a 40hr/week job. It wasn't really hard, since I liked my side project. My schedule from Mo-Fri looked like something like this:

I worked on my first app next to a 40hr/week job. It wasn't really hard, since I liked my side project. My schedule from Mo-Fri looked like something like this: 7AM: Get up, shower, cook breakfast 8AM: Take the bus to work 5PM: Come home, buy groceries, cook dinner, etc. 7PM: Work on side project 1AM: Go to bed This worked well since I lived alone during the week (on the weekends I travelled to my home town and stayed with my girlfriend) I got plenty of stuff done in that year. The most surprising thing was that I wasn't really more productive when I quit my day job.