10 years gives you 36 weeks of severance, plus 6 months of healthcare.
If you have a family, you're never going to have a better opportunity to spend several months working on your side project without measurably impacting your family's stability.
Plus, when you do need to resume your job search, your resume is now "I spent ten years doing these things at BigCo using their proprietary tooling, plus here's the demo of the thing I tried to startup the last six months using off the shelf frameworks, which I am now already proficient in."
10 years gives you 36 weeks of severance, plus 6 months of healthcare.
If you have a family, you're never going to have a better opportunity to spend several months working on your side project without measurably impacting your family's stability.
Plus, when you do need to resume your job search, your resume is now "I spent ten years doing these things at BigCo using their proprietary tooling, plus here's the demo of the thing I tried to startup the last six months using off the shelf frameworks, which I am now already proficient in."