I&#x27;ve been at the same company for about six and half years. It&#x27;s a tiny start up at which software is not our main priority, despite our main offering being a web application that we write ourselves. It&#x27;s closer to a scam company, because the software itself is merely a sales tool to help bring on new customers. It wasn&#x27;t always like this. The company was bought, by new owners, three years ago. The new owners re-purposed the company and staff into what it is now.<p>I&#x27;m burned out here and feel as though moving right into a new job would be a bad idea, because I have a feeling that I would carry over some of my depressed attitude, towards coding, into a new job. I do plan to leave, though.<p>I&#x27;ve had this side project that I&#x27;ve been working on, and day dreaming about, for several months. I&#x27;ll poke it once a week or so just to keep it moving along. It&#x27;s currently just a project relating to a hobby of mine and has no plan to make money or anything. It&#x27;d be more like cultivating a community around this hobby.<p>Lately I&#x27;ve been seriously contemplating just putting in my resignation at my current company, and giving this project of mine a solid few months of dedicated work. That time spent would both give me a chance to try to build this thing out, as well as give me some time to decompress from my current job before going into something new. I&#x27;m single with enough savings to do this.<p>Does this seem like a sound plan?
Ask HN: Would quitting my job, to work on a passion project, be a bad idea?