And I wholeheartedly wish you every success possible.

I suspect we are at different stages of life with different demands and responsibilities. I could be wrong of course and I do not offer that as any sort of excuse.

Our targets/vision are not very different actually. I’ve a real interest in sound work for film and less interest in gigging. Other than that, your vision sounds like something out of my project diary!

I have a game plan for making the transition. It has a 3 to 5 year timeframe though and I have to be very methodical about the groundwork I have to lay before I take the plunge you have.

But I am committed to it; My wife is on board. I just need to do it “smart” so I can provide what I need to provide to the family while still pursuing this dream. It is not impossible, just complex. But things worth doing often are….

Your interest in this post / topic has spurred me to write up the finale for the subject and share some of the responses I received from many others. I will do that over the holidays.

Thank you.

My answer here isn’t absolutely a tip, a trick or an exhaustive answer.
I’d need more than a life I guess to debate about that, but I wanted to comment here as you invited me through Twitter.
This is just an introduction, I could write.

I’d suggest you to dig a bit my website to be a bit more aware of me, my universe, in case of you didn’t do it yet.

Basically, I decided to quit my IT Security Engineer day job a bit more than 1 year ago.
I created designthemedia.com & protofuse.net existed already.
Because I didn’t want & still don’t want to be dependant of external funds, I decided to dive into personal branding model.
Btw, it is near from my way of life so it wasn’t too much difficult.
Thus, I decided to bet on me, my uniqueness, what I can bring to the world of music, art & technology.
A lot of people talked about egocentricity, which isn’t right considering all what a person using this kind of approach share with the world.
This is just I know I can contribute to this world and I’m doing my best to share this motivation.

My target/vision would be, if I had to define it, to make sound design for some nice & interesting project, to make & release my own music again & again, to play live 5 gigs per month and then to continue to build my own tools, hardware & software and to teach about that.

I aimed that, I’m approaching it more & more, getting closer each day.

If I succeed this next (close) year, I’ll do my best to sustain this my whole life.

Btw, I can only suggest to follow your instincts, to erase those wrong pretexts which can bring us far from our goals and to aim at the real and high-prioritized tasks each day.

About the engine under the hood, I’m using GTD method, a bit modified in order to make it fitting better with my mind. It is very powerful to keep focus.

Feel free to contribute on my http://julienbayle.net

http://forums.presonus.com/posts/list/15144.page#107195

Good luck.