Me: 30 year old ex-Physics/Astronomy student who worked a variety of 'jobs', e.g. a content developer, technical writer, and a radio show host. Previous progra

Me: 30 year old ex-Physics/Astronomy student who worked a variety of 'jobs', e.g. a content developer, technical writer, and a radio show host. Previous programming/development experience: a couple of self-hosted WordPress blogs - one of them, a short-story magazine called d.ustb.in. Currently: Learning Python, Django and applying every bit of new knowledge into executing the million ideas that keep bouncing around in my head. I started seriously learning programming with Python last November because I wanted to scratch an itch. There was this idea for an Android app that I had - a food-related Android app - that did not exist in the market. There had been a few attempts but nobody had done anything concrete in the direction that I was thinking of taking. I pitched the idea to a few developer friends and found that the idea seemed to excite almost ALL of them. Unfortunately, none of them could spare me the bandwidth. Frustrated, I finally decided to take the plunge myself and created a prototype using Google AppInventor to knock up a very shoddy-looking app that was served with a Django-Python -TastyPie backend running on a free Heroku instance. Since then, I have gone on to indulge myself with a few other projects: 1. Hashpix - http://hashpix.herokuapp.com http://hashpix.herokuapp.com 2. @updt_me - http://update-me.herokuapp.com http://update-me.herokuapp.com ...and a few more in the pipeline. Now, we come to the most important question: Do I have offers related to my programming 'expertise'? Well, no. Seeing as how my experience in the field is next to none, I find that my skill set has few or no takers. Does it make me happy? Hell, yes! Does it scratch my entrepreneurial itch? Well, somewhat. None of these ideas are making me any money, you see. Does it put food on the table for my family? Abso-fucking-lutely not. I'm pretty sure it won't put any food on the table until I reach a good enough level of expertise - something that I am sure is (at least) another few hundred thousand lines of code away. Long story short? If you have the bandwidth, the energy, the ideas, the time, the inclination, the burning desire and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the savings in your bank account to scratch your entrepreneurial itch, go ahead and take the plunge. Otherwise, wait for a while, build up those zeros that follow the $ sign and THEN take the plunge. Of course, the standard universal disclaimer applies: YMMV.