You are in a great situation. You have two great opportunities in front of you. Trust your gut and run with it.
I know which one I would chose. I would travel.
I'm 39, married with a kid. Last year when our daughter was seven months old, I walked away from a good contract. I would have been renewed continuously if I wanted it. We spent about two months travelling (France & various spots in Canada), and then another three months chilling out in Calgary. I loved it.
I'm now thinking about when we will do it next. I'd like to take six months and spend the whole time in a foreign country. Our current plan is to do it on the latter half of a mat-leave again. But if it turns out that we do not have another kid, I would still like to do it.
If you don't travel now, you will have opportunities later if you want to do it. But if you don't travel now when you really don't have many excuses, I am sure you will find more reasons not to travel in the future. You will always have a great reason why it isn't a good time to travel.
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Originally Posted by Jonrox
Although, not being from Calgary it's very interesting to see the confidence (bordering on arrogance) about the ability to find amazing, stable careers so easily.
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Last year, I confidently left a contract job while my wife was on mat-leave, spent a fair amount of money on travel, and did substantial renovations on our condo. Lots of cost, negligible income. And I had no doubt I would find something. After spending a bit of time in various places, it became quite clear to me that there is no other place that I want to consider home than Calgary because of this. In no other place that I know would we have saved up enough money to not worry about this and also have confidence of finding a new job.
That said, it was a bit of an adjustment. Getting my mind back into the work environment at the same time as starting my daughter in day-care and my wife going back to work was difficult. It took a couple months longer to land another contract than anticipated, but I will admit that I really didn't try too hard. I did blow one interview because my mind was really not back in a work mindset. But, now I'm adjusted and going better than ever.