Hey there,

Several years ago I walked out of a user group with a mate and an idea come to me, that idea had been rolling around in my head the past several years until in recent months I tried to utilise the time I had available after hours to begin implementation but unfortunately that time wasn’t enough.  As a result I was faced with the hard decision of either keep chipping away after hours or resign and give it the focus that was required.

I was considering the pros and cons to try to deciding whether to resign, I found that I was in a unique life position:

Pros:

•  27 years old
• a risky but good product idea
• no children + not married
• just enough savings to scrape (I definitely mean scrape – e.g fishing for coins in that old shoe box ) through 6 months of unemployment/self employment.

Cons:

• If it doesn’t work I start out at Zero $$ savings again – a big setback, but hey I will have a broader skillset
• No, NULL, Zero income for 6 months – how much would this cost you?
• Spending my life savings, lets put this one in perspective – add the life savings to the spend bucket
  • This was on its way to be a deposit for a home loan
  • It’s enough to have paid for a round the world trip rather than sitting in a 4m x3.5m x 3 room
  • 5000+ beers
    

    beer

After a lot of thought and a little bit of emotion about the beers that could have been mine I resigned from my job as a senior software engineer thus enabling myself to focus, this was an extremely difficult decision but one that I am comfortable with. 

So where too now – well it is coming towards the end of my first week working on my project full time.  It’s been interesting both technically and personally. On the personal front it is somewhat daunting acknowledging the situation I have thrown myself into, but hey i can only point the finger at one person .  At the same time it has been empowering to really feel dependent upon myself to make the most of this great opportunity.  On the technical front, you can look forward to more seeing posts relating too:

• Windows Phone 7 – wp7dev
• Azure *
• ASP .NET MVC
• Scrum

Stay tuned.

Nick