Great; typical - you wait ages for a bus, and when it comes it's on fire. After a long and torturous deliberation process, the client we had been talking to at work decided to go with a different company to build their large (and to us, pretty vital) project. This doesn't leave us immediately bankrupt, as there are projects coming in here and there to tide us over, but things are looking bad enough in April for us to take half the month off before picking work back up again. We have enough work until August if everything else works out, and after that, things are uncertain.

But I have a way out - on Monday morning, I received a job offer from the interviews that I was attending in March. With a way into a much more stable and sensible position right in front of me, it might be time to take the opportunity to get out, even though I don't want to do it, for that chance that things might still work out all right and I could keep the extraordinary level of comfort that I have at my current job.

Actually, I'll diagrammatize it for you - look at this.


I am currently extremely comfortable, but we're heading pretty swiftly into an iceberg field. I have this opportunity to step off on to safety, whereupon this seems to be the most likely outcome:


But there's always the chance that this will happen instead.


I'm sorry to do this to you, but... here are the lists.

Why I should move to the new job
Likelihood of disintegration of current job
The company is growing - it's based on correcting flaws in the American healthcare market, and will therefore have enough work for at least the next three centuries
My current company might actually have a greater chance of survival without a third salary to pay for the time being
Not having to deal with this specimen
16% more pay a year from the outset
It's physically closer
I'd get a new laptop to replace the increasingly decrepit work laptop provided by my existing employment

Why I should stay working at my current job
I really want to keep working with the people I've got to know over the last four years, rather than being thrown into a new working environment with people I don't know
I know what I'm doing there - I'd be going into a new environment and learning new practices and systems all over again
I actually quite enjoy dealing with the stupid IT department, as it makes me look like I know what I'm doing
It's not that close, but I don't actually have to turn up if I can't be bothered
Probably have to devote a weekend to clearing said work laptop of any incriminating evidence

Help.