Join a hacker space. You’ll be able to go there one evening a week and do that hobby project around people from different walks of life, and you’ll keep that e

Join a hacker space. You’ll be able to go there one evening a week and do that hobby project around people from different walks of life, and you’ll keep that entrepreneurial attitude via discussions with people at startups, consultants, etc that are using the same space. You’ll avoid being “boring” professionally by encountering all the wonderful things other people work on. Then do a hobby the other nights — go dancing, join a band, play board games, whatever. - - - - - Maybe I’m just incurably naive — but I still view myself as working on “big ideas”. But I’ve come to two conclusions: 1. I’m okay making my life about that — in a way a lot of people don’t want to. 2. I’m okay with that being a lot of time/effort/heartache — in a way that a lot of people choose to avoid, because it’s easily cost me 6 figures pursuing that, rather than a stable Big Co job. I think what’s most important is to live the life you want to.