My sage advice, in order of precidence...
1. Hang in there with the current job manning the controls until you have a parachute. Never bail out of a plane without one. Even buckled into a plane going down has a superior survival advantage to a freefall, so treat each day of work as if you're committed 100% to keeping that plane in the sky until you make the leap.
2. Like the new job prospect, inspect your parachute thouroughly before you take it along. Nothing's worse than bailing out, only to discover your parachute is a piece of shit, and you plumet like a hot rock (hot rocks do indeed fall faster than cold ones).
3. Be wary of non-compete clauses, or exclusivity contracts (if applicable). It remains my opinion that so long as you punch someone else's time-clock, you are limited in your potential success, in that you can only become successful if someone superior to you allows you the opportunity to succeed, and usually that happens only if they can ride your pony to their benefit as well. Aside from the stable (pun) day job, your mind should forever be spinning out ideas of how to become your own man, and own the clock everyone else has to punch. Only then will you achieve your true value, and, IMHO, this should always be your long-term plan. What are you starting up, no matter how small, that you and you alone own and control? Even if not wildly successful in the beginning, it teaches you how to be THAT guy. A street-vender selling apples now owns his own supermarket, because he's THAT guy.
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