A bit of advice if you will...

[Duck-Stew]

My vote is to take the mgt gig.  Feel it out for a while.  Save some bankroll, and start it on the side.

In this economy, any upwardly mobile job advancement is rare and should be treated as such.

Oh, and best of luck!!!

[Howie]

Two questions to ask yourself:
  Do I need to keep my day job to provide health insurance for my family?
  Do I have a big enough nest egg to last until the business starts to turn a profit.

What ever you decide, best of luck!

 

[RAT900]

also, if you have the secure money, you can build a bankroll for the business for later on....

FWIW though, often times when someone's love and hobby becomes their job, it often becomes a hassle and alot more than they thought and they fall out of love...not always...but sometimes

+11ty billion

Straddle both pursuits as long as possible before stepping off on only one....and do work a business plan....I used to love restoring old British Road Bikes...great hobby, pastime and way of relaxing...very rewarding...folks were floored by the quality of my work

when I started taking on other folk's projects it quickly became a gristly chore, it had expectations and deadlines other than my own...

what were once "beautiful old British Castings" quickly devolved into being hateful pot-metal with stripped threads needing endless helicoils and customers arguing that it was my problem and that I had probably stripped them

Your perspective WILL change if you move it from hobby to source of income...especially when you hit all those bumps in progress that you don't mind when it is your stuff....but will really mind when it is someone else's.

Business plan and a cold-eyed, dead honest as hell self-appraisal as to whether you believe are truly cut out for the challenges

[The Architect]

My vote is to take the mgt gig.  Feel it out for a while.  Save some bankroll, and start it on the side.

In this economy, any upwardly mobile job advancement is rare and should be treated as such.

Oh, and best of luck!!!

+1

This isn't a good time to be a small business.  The economy and many other factors are working against you.  And depending on which state your in edited for political content the reward will not be worth your time and effort.