Hello,
Recently i have been thinking much about my future. Let’s start from current situation.
I’m 32, from Poland, working as C# programmer in company which writes business apps. I’m married and have one kid. After work i’m writing games for android. It takes time, unfortunately time, which i could spend with my wife & kid. On the other side it helps to build some passive income. I hope that in future i could move entirely to making my own games and drop my job. But to do that i need to make some successful game(s). Writing game is not hard. Making it successful is. So it needs time, probably even couple of years. It’s not easy to work 8 hours and than 2-3 at home. Also i’m feeling guilty i’m sacrificing my family time.
You may ask why i want to quit my job - there are couple of reasons:
- In my area salaries are not that good. It’s getting better, but still too low IMHO. Average net salary for programmer in my area is 1000 - 1300$ monthly. Some jobs offers even 2000$ but those are minority.
- I’m little tired of writing business apps. I’ve been doing it for 9 years already.
- I like writing games more
Another option is to work in some company which writes games. But you can’t find such company in my area. So i would have to relocate (and my wife would need to quit her job) or try to find something remotely - ideally for foreign company.
What do you think i should do?
- Maybe it’s best to stay at stable job and only write games at midnight / night?
- Quit my job now, devote myself to writing my own games and hope they will be successful enough to reach income of my daily job?
- Look for remote job? Do you think 20 - 30$ per hour (gross) would possible rate?