It just keeps getting weirder, part I.

Okay.

13 years ago, I quit the family business (actually, I got fired, but only because I wouldn't promise to leave my hair up for religious services), and went to a company that would help me find a job. Instead of helping me find a job, they hired me. Three years later, I started my own company. Five years later, I sold it. Two and half years later, I started ANOTHER company.

Today, my boss from a decade ago just asked if I'd be interested in coming back. There are a LOT of pros and cons.

Cons

1. I wouldn't be my own boss.
2. I wouldn't make potentially huge amounts like I possibly might at my firm.
3. I wouldn't have nearly the flexibility for parenting time that I have here at my own place.
4. Jobs go away. If I lose this job, what happens?
   

Pros

1. I would get some nice (but not huge) $ up front for the company I currently have... college tuition, anyone?
2. I would learn a huge amount about mine and related industries, in a way that I absolutely would not be able to learn on my own.
3. This knowledge would make me much more marketable should, God forbid, the new gig didn't work out.
4. I would be surrounded by people who would provide all kinds of new input... currently, I'm pretty much the generator of 100% of the ideas, and have been for a decade. I'm enormously attracted to intellectual challenge.
5. It would be a decent salary, the base of which would not be subject to change: stability, stability, stability... and the ability to plan a bit.

This totally defines the idea of a luxury problem, and I know this. Still, my head is spinning with the possibility of change. Again.

Love to all. Even you, the guy who did coke in front of his employees.