This is a typical outline that assumes that you will ultimately want to work for yourself and don't have much to tie you down to your existing career path: Fig

This is a typical outline that assumes that you will ultimately want to work for yourself and don't have much to tie you down to your existing career path: Figure out a business you want to be in that makes use of web development. "Web development" itself is not a business, unless you want to be an employee or a consultant, and most people ultimately loath that kind of labor just as much as sales. You might want to be an employee for some time to learn from others, but a motivated learner is probably going to extract most of the value from employment after a year or two. Then save money, downsize your lifestyle, quit the job, and start on the business. Or preferably start on the business before the other things and gradually squeeze it into your time. It doesn't matter too much if there's a competitor(that's proof of worthiness) as long as there isn't a capitalization or path-dependency(aka. "lock-in") problem that will significantly hamper your own efforts. Then expect to lose money for a year or so, but at incrementally slower rates until you break even.