Title says it all. Basically I am at a point where I can choose between 2 jobs.
One would leave me incredibly busy, completely stressed for the next 3-4 years and wouldn’t leave me with a lot of free time in general (it also has a very high burn out quote) and a lot of young people who enter the job leave shortly after. The pay would be good, the job is incredible secure, it would make me a civil servant and it’s a job I would mostly enjoy. I find it incredibly fulfilling and it is a lot of fun. But my job would be pretty much everything I do from then with no real time for other hobbies.
The other job is much more relaxed, it is even more fun and I would work with one of my hobbies. But the pay is dogshit I would make the least of any of my friends, it is less secure and the working hours are funky but regular. It might become very challenging to afford a family on this salary (not impossible though).
I feel like I am fucked either way. Any thoughts?
15 years ago I went for the shittier paid but awesomer job. I jumped from there to slightly less awesome but increasingly better paid jobs three times since then. Now I’m handsomely paid, and my job is still reasonably interesting.
That said, at one point I was desperate enough to start hunting for very shitty jobs with great salaries. I was saved by an absolute stike of luck.
What I guess I’m saying is I don’t regret my decision back then. I don’t know what you do but in my line of work you can pretty much always find a job that sucks ass but pays well, and what’s scarcer is jobs that actually are fun and interesting. If that’s your case, too, go for the interesting job. If you’re lucky you can keep jumping interesting jobs with higher salaries, if not you can always jump ships and work a boring good paid one.