Luckily in the software industry that's an easy problem to solve. Get a job that pays the bills. Create a website/webapp in your free time and call it a business of which you are now the CEO. Learn and apply all the relevant tools and techniques.
Assuming it never generates enough revenue to get past the "hobby" stage, a few years from now you it will still have value in your resume. Someone who worked on their own project for years is always an attractive candidate for a programming job (at least to us).
Assuming it never generates enough revenue to get past the "hobby" stage, a few years from now you it will still have value in your resume. Someone who worked on their own project for years is always an attractive candidate for a programming job (at least to us).