Title: Ask HN: What if I don't have an idea?<p>I have,<p><pre><code>    Time: I recently left my job. (in this economy?! yup)
    Skill: I'm proficient in Django, system administration, a bit of scaling, but not so much front-end / design.
    Money: I'm not talking retirement fund here, but my expenses are "tiny" and savings (for my age) are "high".
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(I really don't want to imply I have a _lot_ of the above.  I don't think I'm a "Rockstar" [I hate that as much as you do]. I'm not trying to say I have all the time and cash in the world.  I just want to explain my situation.)<p>I don't have,<p><pre><code>    An idea I'm passionate about
    Someone else to work with
    A better physical location (I'm in Dallas right now, but that also helps the money part above)
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I've been out of school and doing Django development for ~3 years, the development was fun but the app/idea itself was never my passion (I was just an employee, by the way).  My plan when I left my job ~3 weeks ago was to do self-study and decide what I wanted to do (by which I probably mean: who I wanted to work for).  I've given myself until March, where I figured I could find some leads at PyCon.  I've been catching up on books, blogs, projects I wanted to look into - but I haven't found anything to work on that really takes my time.  Nothing that keeps me up at night.<p>I can certainly fill my time until March just doing the self-study thing with no specific goal in mind, but I feel like I'm missing an opportunity.  Especially reading about the other guys here who saved to a specific goal so they could quit and do their thing.  I'm there already, and time is ticking down.<p>I guess one easy-mode answer is: "Find another startup you could be passionate about".  I agree, I'm in a perfect situation to take a dive with other people, except for my location.  Anything is possible, I guess, but lets just say that I'd like to stay in Dallas for the next few months.  How are my options affected in that case?<p>Is this too vague?  Whiney?  Should I be sad/ashamed that I don't have a list of ideas I want to work on?<p>I'm just sort of confused, and seeking your advice.
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