2 Job Offers. Hard Decision

nothimagain

I'm going back and worth on these two job offers i have at the moment. I'm currently employed but these two places both offer more experience than my current employer.

Company A :
Offered me 95k .9-5 job mon-fri. no on call.10 mins away from my house and ill never hit traffic. 15k more than i make now. Job would require me setting up site to site VPNs for different clients. I get to work with routing protocols finally including like BGP although i dont think it will entail anything too complicated. Will also learn about Juniper,Brocade,Palo Altos,Cisco and some new Nexus switches. Environment consist of roughly 5000 users. Might be more. Health care plane is great and offers a bunch of other education benefits

Company B:

Offered 80k . A Enterprise and SP environment. I would get to touch a bunch of new tech to me such SDN, Juniper,WAN accelerators, AWS, Cisco ASRs , MPLS , BGP and ect.. Huge environment 40k plus users. SHITTY health care plan(would be like $1000 a month out of my pocket), 40 minutes away from WITH no traffic. Would learn a lot but i am losing out on a lot of money and health issurance would kill me since i have a whole family so that 80k really is much less.

I feel like Company B is better for my career in the long run , but Company A would get me experience and still pay me good.

josephandre

company A seems like a no brainer. I was waiting for the catch, or the big selling point buried at the end of company B's description.

i'm a fan of wanting to be exposed to new things at a job and growing in your position, but when comparing offers i need something that they provide me that i can't for myself. ie money, benefits etc. sounds like you'll be exposed to things you're interested in and that will be useful at company A, and with time you save in commute, use it to study other things yourself. win/win.