I've lived with a parent (it's a big house they'd alone otherwise here) for I guess too many years then I've should. Also I'm old and my g/f who is similar age of five years also lives with a parent. Though she is getting antsy and wants kids and she only has a few years left. I want a family too but have been holding off for that big moment when my team and I start generating money and or sell our work. Ugh will that happen I don't know but I need to get back into the workforce and do our startup on the side. This what I was doing for the last year and half until I lost yet another developer job because of my incessant need to startup. I've lost two jobs in the two and half years because my bosses found out about my startup or we become friendly and I talk about it a lot.
Ugh I'm sorta feeling stuck professionally and tomorrow I start my 3rd incubator yet im unemployed.
You might want to reconsider startup pursuits after your early to mid 30s.
I might be naive, but I don't see having to choose self-employment or salaried work as a all-or-nothing, no-going-back decision.
You could easily secure a well paid job for a few years, and save enough to support working on a start-up or starting a consulting business.
If things do not go as planned, I can see no problems in going back to being employed, since your skills won´t have
withered in the meantime, and possibily learned new ones.
It seems to me that the startup culture is seen sometimes as a "get rich quick" scheme, where the goal is to retire at 25.
A normal career in most professions lasts 30/40 years...
Ugh I'm sorta feeling stuck professionally and tomorrow I start my 3rd incubator yet im unemployed.
You might want to reconsider startup pursuits after your early to mid 30s.