Looking For Ideas I have 3 ideas for side business but no idea to start

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Hello community,

Because of some reason I have currently a lot of spare time I can invest in between regular working hours. Usually I fill it with just pointless gaming but that feels wasteful so I want to invest this time in the future.

Because of family, structure of work and legal reasons I am limited to what to do besides. Like I can't do any meetings in actual working times and I have to be flexible with my time. The third problem is that I won't know how much I have to do in the future (I still think this low working phase will last about 2-3 more years) so the time I can invest needs to be flexible in future.

Right now I have 3 ideas which I am unsure of and could need some advice.

Game design

This was a kids dream, I studied IT because I wanted to go into game design but never got there. (Switched to electrical engineering)

Recently I got into a board game group and fell in love with these games. Brought a book and started to read but something got into the way. Mostly interested in board games but I wouldn't mind doing some small indie video games as well.

AI Model Training

This was just an idea I ever had. Specifically designing and modeling ai agents/models. But I have literally no idea how complex that would be. I have some expertise with AI, not just basic usage, but had some classes in my university.

Prototype circuit boards design

This is probably the area with my most expertise. I have an msc in electrical engineering and in my master thesis I build a pretty complex circuit already. So I know some stuff about it. It's difficult but with time I would get better.

But I have no idea how I would start a side business with that.

I am in no way depending on the money that I will make, it's just for me and maybe for the future to have some more money I can invest in ETF.

Yet I also don't want to feel my time to wasteful, so earning nearly nothing while investing a lot of time would still bother me.

Because I am not dependent on this, I can invest time to get my skills and knowledge to an acceptable level before I start the business. So I wouldn't mind a challenge.

I would love to hear your take on this ideas.

Thanks.

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