Title: I&#x27;m in my early 40s and live in a rental condo with my family in a West Coast city. I have a high paying job in one of the FANG companies, making close to 500K&#x2F;year. At the same time, I have a decent amount of savings (600K 401k and 1.1M in cash in my bank account from a property sale).<p>The only problem is that I can&#x27;t really stand my job. I had prestigious positions in other major companies but I pretty much hated them all.<p>Yes, I should be thankful to have a gig at a major tech company. But just because I&#x27;m okay at what I do and was able to profit from my skills, it doesn&#x27;t mean that I like it...<p>I&#x27;m considering moving to a cheaper area of the country (also due to family reasons) to start my own company. I&#x27;m not ready to share what I&#x27;ll do, but just for the sake of my question, it will be something I love with a risk profile similar to creating a mobile game company - high chance of failure, average to low chance of making some money and low, but not zero, chance of making a lot of money. I&#x27;m decent at this particular activity, but not world class (yet)! This company will need at least 2-3 years before actually having a chance to make good money. Due to my savings, I can wait this much and then some.<p>The reason I&#x27;m writing this is because I&#x27;m panicking at the prospect of throwing away my high income, high stress, low happiness career for a risky enterprise that will likely not work out. I&#x27;m particularly concerned about having to come back to the job market if my company fails, likely working on an even worse job outside the major tech centers (the bright side is that if the company fails, given its small costs, I&#x27;ll still have ~500K in bank)<p>My question is: has anyone here, in a similar situation, done something like this? And if your company failed, have you been able to come back to the market in a good situation?
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