There are two unrelated questions: 1. Should you give up (either your current project or your plans or founding a software business) and 2. Should you get a job

There are two unrelated questions: 1. Should you give up (either your current project or your plans or founding a software business) and 2. Should you get a job. Lots of people are telling you about 1. I don't know that 2. necessarily follows automatically. Is the only reason you're not working because you want to build this particular software? Or do you just not like the idea of a "job" job and all the baggage that comes with it? My point is don't assume that one choice is tied to the other, especially if you're not pressed for money. You could give up the project and do nothing, raise your children, do some other thing...