> Also it's become harder and harder to get up everyday to spend the day working on something that does not wholeheartedly passionates me.
Most people don't like their jobs. Most people hate their jobs. Go to work. Get money. Build a business at night and then leave.
If you blow through your savings and/or retirement in six months you're just going to end up in a worse position overall.
You will lose motivation to work on your project. It will become so boring and tedious that you will want to quit. Businesses are 90% boring. If you can't hold a boring job before validating the idea then you will run into trouble. Don't quit or find another one that sucks less.
First, I always took Sunday to work on it. Which is harder than it sounds because friends and family want that day. Eventually they'll pick up on it, be consistent.
Second, to help with the commute problem. I decided to dedicate an extra 30 to 60 min after work, before my commute to work on it. You're already at work, you're already forcing yourself to accomplish tasks, why not tick on task off for yourself before you hop on the road? I found that a lot of weeks this made me more productive than working Sundays as it was less likely to result in a few hours of web browsing. (I'm hungry and it's only supposed to be 30-60 min right?)
Third, if you dread waking up in the morning, that's usually the point where I will draw the line and get another job. It will seriously help you out if you're not stressed so much about your day to day work.
I get it, I feel your struggle man. I wish you the best either way, if you do quit, you owe us an update on how it panned out :)
Don't throw away a comfortable situation thinking that you are running after a dream because you can finish without both of them (and this happen with the most of us). I'm much more happy now that I found another good job than when I left the last one to become a digital nomad.
Spend your time on building the business (getting customers, building a brand name). That's hard enough IMO.
And build up your cash cushion. If you do try to bootstrap your project you want to be able to dedicate your time to them, not be stressed about how to pay for your next meal/rent payment.
Just pay special attention if you are moving forward with an idea because the market, your customers are saying so. This is the only valid reason. All other possible reasons are probably pushing you to the wrong way (inertia, a gut feeling that this someday will be huge, people that are not customers nor remotely potential customers giving you positive feedback, to occupy your mind as you have nothing else to do, to take advantage of a tech stack knowledge you already have, etc)