maybeindie

Administrative details aren't quite as bad here, and anyway I've already got a company set up from my web app launch a few years back. Thanks for the input. Haven't heard about anything comparable to "entrepreneurial vacation" but some people do take extended, unpaid leaves of absence for various reasons. Maybe I'll talk to my employer about that, would make it far less risky - though it would also give me less of a fire under my ass :)

That seems consistent with what I've heard, too.

I based the 100-150$ number on couple of datapoints from people I know who have worked on freelance gigs and who are roughly equivalent to me in experience/rep. Wages (and cost of living!) seems to be higher in Scandinavia than in the US.

Thank you for your input. I'd try to put some work/contracts in the pipeline before I was done with the old job (and I'd have three months to do it: I have three months notice of resignation/termination in my current job.)

That's a good point, and something I actually hadn't thought about. I have a good relationship and reputation with the company so I'll look into it. Thanks. :)

Thank you. I'm also fairly certain I'll easily find new salaried work if all else fails and I run out of funds. Would feel like a big defeat though. :)

Thank you for the in-debth response.

My spouse is on board emotionally, we've talked thoroughly about it. Health insurance stuff will be taken care of if I do quit and is baked into my calculations (as is VAT, taxes, etc).

I start networking and pitching actively to my contacts for work/ the day after I resign, which means I'd have three months left in my job to find clients/contracts before I started working on my own - standard notice of resignation in my country is three months.