I am sure most of you will understand my reason to remain anonymous in this post, with that said: I have been offered the following posts, and am deliberating on their acceptance, your help would be very much appreciated.<p>Firstly, whoami: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=developer786<p>I am not a born coder, I know that, therefore for the second post, I will be working very very hard. Where I am currently, I am very comfortable.<p>Current Post
- Windows/Linux Administrator / DevOP
- Large Private Healthcare company with good financial backing / profitable.
- Job Security: Medium/High
- Environment: Working with a team of 30 2nd and 3rd line support
- No Stock options or shares
- Salary: $63K
- The role: Little development experience, lots of Linux Admin Experience, training in any sysadmin courses provided once every 2 years.<p>New Post
- Developer(bash/php/ruby/python) / Linux Administrator
- Private Telecommunications company with private shareholder backing / breaking even.
- Job Security: Low/Medium
- Environment: Working From Home
- Stock options
- Salary: $84K
- The role: Developing bespoke applications in the above languages for a range of customer requirements. Developing and extending Linux based applications.<p>Your help, If I don't get to thank you later, is very much appreciated.
(disclaimer: I have no mortage, no kids, and I'm a contractor with no job security)<p>More money, more family time, more learning + experience? I'd say go for it. Telco developers can pick up a lot of side-knowledge which may help you in future endeavours.
Having been in a similar position myself, It's hard to let go of a nice cushy position and it's not always about pay, but in this case, the pay is better in the new job, the risk is higher but then...no pain no gain!<p>go for it, take the risk!!