Lateral move from stable government role to electrical distributor
I am a Sydney based 29 yo design engineer weighing up a lateral career move from my current very stable $145k base engineering role to a $180k base role.
My area of engineering is power related and fairly specialised. I've moved companies a few times chasing new experience or salary but I'm struggling to decide on this latest career change.
The main considerations are:
- Current job is 100% gov and stable, team and boss are great to work with and workload is very manageable. Projects are interesting. New team is 50% gov and 50% private: the manager is fairly young and seems ok but I haven't met anyone else in the team
- Experience and learning potential at the distributor will be industry leading in Aus. Current role is behind the overall industry
- My current team is quite young so will be a while before a role is vacated and I can advance in seniority. New team unknown how easy progression will be.
- In my role I do paid occasional weekend overtime which I don't mind too much. Typically this would be around $30k worth per year. Which places it very close to the new role (but in the new role I wouldn't have to work weekends). OT is not available for the new role
- Commute times are very similar for both. Current role is 1 day a week in office, new role is 2 days office based
What would you do in this scenario?