Keep your day job . . . keep saving . . . Explore/validate your startup ideas/apps as side projects. Minimize any public connection to your side projects, pri

Keep your day job . . . keep saving . . . Explore/validate your startup ideas/apps as side projects. Minimize any public connection to your side projects, privacy protection for your domains, don't discus them with anyone with a connection to work. Review your employment contracts for any IP clauses. Don't log in to, browse to or work on your side projects at work. Creating a startup is hard and can take a while to ramp up to bringing in decent revenue. Explore learn and polish your skills on the side as long as you can while working and saving. Decent jobs are hard to find, enjoy the one you have if you work another two years you could have a 150k runway or more. If you employer is really against any outside projects and you do have clauses in your contract indicating they own IP rights to anything you do another option is interview and try to find another job that is completely open to side projects. By the way . . . "But day to day its very slow and a bit boring." -OP That's why they call it work. It sounds like you have the desire to run your own startup. I would prepare and lay the groundwork while you're employed as long as you can saving as much as possible. Check for any documents you signed when you started your current job or any other binding agreements with them, you could even hire an attorney for a few hours to see if they would have any claim to IP/ideas you start while working there. If they say they wouldn't have any IP claims I would work on your ideas 'under cover' as long as you can till one gets traction. Have you listened to StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com? If not check it out.