Considering a career switch

To tell you the truth, I'm tired of my current career already. Programming for yourself is nice, and programming itself is a lot of fun.. while you don't have to make a living out of it. Even more, when you have to sit at the office for 8 hours a day, pretending to be working hard - now that's not a lot of fun anymore.
For me, that is not.

I understood that long ago. Actually, almost a year have past since I gave it my first serious consideration. And while I think of myself as of a conscious person most of the times, I still haven't decided to make a switch. There are many reasons - on deeper thought, many of which are mere excuses anyway - but the most big single reason is: i make quite a lot of money from my current job position - about $550. Not much compared to any developed country, still that's quite a lot down here in Kyrgyzstan. For example, a normal salary for a developer here is about $250-$350. So that really made me think thrice whenether the idea of leaving came to my head.

Anyway, Steve Pavlina have wrote an article lately, divinely driven to help me sort this out, i suppose :)

And here I am, writing a business plan for my first shareware project (about 20% complete), trying to weight up the funds and time needed to launch it. Fortunately, a friend of mine is interested in this, too. Actually, he's interested in good investments, and that's exaclty what my project lacks at the moment.

Hopefully, we'll be able to launch it in about half a year from now. And hopefully we'll make enough profit from it in next several years to stop this project peacefully (and making the 80% failure statistics look even more discouraging) and start another one from scratch.

I haven't left my current job yet, however, once I make sure I will have a stable profit - about $200, I suppose - from either my friend's investments in me, or from any other side job I would take to feed myself, - I shall leave at once, and will hopefully forget my current job as we tend to forget nightmares. Slowly, but inevitably. :)