If you are working full time and you fell that the job bring you a good benefit, i would recommend you to stay with your current job while starting a small or home based business running moonlight. Running a home based business normally will not occupy much of your time, running an uncomplicated business like home cleaning service, you can actually hire a cleaning worker to do the core work. You, as the business owner, while working full time you can do the more critical work such as preparing quotation, financial report, marketing, advertising campaign and etc during your non working hour.

By working full time and earning full time salary, you can also use part of your salary for some of the expenses in the business. Running a business would have the risk in low and peak season of sells, and holding onto a salaried job can really help you make it through the slow season typical of a new business.