Prioritize family time, work on your side project when your family is sleeping. Maybe work out where you can spend part of the weekend on it. But prioritize fam

Prioritize family time, work on your side project when your family is sleeping. Maybe work out where you can spend part of the weekend on it. But prioritize family time when it's family time. Don't risk your families savings on a business idea. I would look at B2B vs B2C. Check out Rob's stair step approach at StartUpsfortheRestofUs.com. Basically start with a product or simple app to start generating revenue and use that to fund your next larger project. Do this till you can quit your day job. Having revenue will make it easier to justify the time you spend on side projects too. And get you familiar with running projects, doing support etc. I would keep your secure full time job so you don't have to focus on the next contract. Start small and build things up. You can never get back family time so enjoy that while you can. The kids grow up fast.