Decisions decisions...

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Okay, so here's my conundrum. As most of you old fogeys remember, I've been an Arabic linguist for some time running now. In a few of my catch up posts I mentioned the different job offers I've been considering, and now I've arrived at an impasse. I'm in need of your sage advice. Lemme break it down for you.

First I get an offer from Titan corporation to keep working in the same facility I worked as a Marine, but on a different project. The pay, however, is about 4x my enlisted pay, and for this area, I'd live a very cozy life indeed. Titan requested a bundle of info and throughout multiple phone conversations seems very eager indeed to get me on board.

Then, I get an offer from SM Consulting in Linthicum Heights, MD, doing pathetically simple document translation at a lower security level (read: less interesting) than my previous job. However, they're offering six figures as a starting salary. Catch here is cost of living in Maryland is rediculous, and unless they're willing to foot some transition assistance I don't want to move my family at this time. They were initially fast about getting things done, then there was a three week lull during which I couldn't even talk to my contact at their office, but now he's come out of the shadows wanting some paperwork ASAP and for us to cinch the deal.

Then I just got another offer for yet another job in Maryland; they're putting together a package to present to the DIA (defense intelligence agency) and they want me on board as part of their sell-factor. What this means I'm pretty much on the ground floor of a new project, and infinately valuable to them as an asset.

Now I don't mind living down here in Augusta but I'd love to move back to Maryland. The market for my jobskill is such that eventually I'll have to move up there anyway. Here I can work of Titan or the NSA. There I can work for about four dozen government agencies and subcontractors, so the availability of work and the prospect of moving up in the world is greater. The only issue is that at the moment I desperately need a job, as we're just eeking by without my income; and the companies up there just haven't gotten the ball rolling as fast as Titan did. I can be working for Titan inside of two weeks now, we've got everything squared away but my offer contract.

So what's everyone's take on this? Work for Titan and do what I've been doing, or branch out and take a risk heading to Maryland and make bajillions of American cash-monies?