Situation:
- Living in Eastern Europe (Budapest, Hungary; FI is really hard to achieve over here, as your salary is closer to "basic needs" and you can't save much, when you finally achieve good salary, there is not much good investing opportunities)
Financials monthly (converted to USD from HUF):
Income Me (28): 1250 $ (1.6x times the average salary in Budapest)
GF (28, wedding in 1 month): 550 $
Average monthly spending: 1250 $ so my soon to be wife's salary is our savings.
My wife is finishing her PhD and degree in teaching next year. She does not want to continue with research, nor transit to the industry, she wants to become a high school teacher.
We are planning to have a child after she finishes next year, and as we calculated, when my wife is at home, our incomes and expenses would be really close to each other.
I have been working for 3.5years as a physicist at a Hungarian company, which makes automated metrology tools for the semiconductor industry. I design optical systems (microscopes, spectrographs etc.). Company is in a transition phase as we have 600 employees and still work somewhat like a garage company, now there is a lot of bureaucracy (not the necessary and good kind), and a company as a whole is a little bit of mess nowadays. Fortunately we don't really have a serious competition, so the company does great as we sell to rich markets, and the engineering salaries are a joke in Hungary compared to the profits we make.
I progressed and learned quite a lot here (almost doubled my starting salary in 2.5 years, and I expect a raise at the end of this year also). But lately, I'm a bit bored here, I have a lot of freedom in the company, and I don't always have the discipline to learn/do things in my freetime at work; sometimes I learn Python and experiment with new ideas in the laboratory, but most of the time I'm just bored. I am much better when I have clear tasks and goals.
I got an offer from another company. It is an industry giant headquartered in Germany, which has a great office in Budapest employing more than 2000 engineers. The work may not be as exciting as at my current company, but I would always have clear tasks and deadlines (I guess). I would still have to learn a somewhat new area of optical design, which I am sure would be interesting for at least a year. They would pay 1720 $ which is awesome and I would not be so afraid about having a child financially.
I think I could make as much as this offer in a few years at my current workplace also. Also, this is the first job I ever had, so I don't really have a reference, if my current workplace is good or not.
I am also thinking that if I could part ways with my current employer in a good mood, and I don't like the new place as much, maybe I could come back when things settle and they figure out how to run a big company smoothly.
So to sum it:
Company A: OK salary, sometimes really interesting (like 2 months out of 12) but due to changes in the company, really boring in the last half year, and I don't know how long this phase is going to last
Company B: Great salary, probably not that interesting tasks.
What would you guys recommend and why?
Also: If you have good advice how to quit with a good mood, that would be great.