You all aren't making it easy for me are you?
You are making very convincing cases for either option, which is not really helpful.
Just kidding, I appreciate all your contributions, of course.
If it wasnt that right now I am working for a company that is making me feel like a miserable piece of c**p while actually doing a job that I was loving until a few months ago, this would be a no brainer.
I am not one of those dreaming to go to the Airline at all costs, not at all.
I am seriously convinced that the best jobs are in GA, but that are not easy to catch, at all. I have known many colleagues in this business working for owners respecting their professionality, well paid and on beautiful and rewarding planes, while still able to retain a good lifestyle.
There are not many, but they are there. How to get them?
Most definitely not by going TP... sad to say but it is only by means of contacts and networking that you can climb that long and steep ladder that is business aviation. Bailing out from this sector would probably mean to say bye bye to any hope in this sense.
The ironic side of the story is that I was a few weeks ago just a few inches from nailing one of these dream jobs, but at the end it didnt go through, which is making this current situation even more bitter.
Having said this it is also very true that you live only once, and that being happy with what you do is more important than what kind of plane you fly.
Having to go to work not knowing when you will be back, but with the certainty that in the process you will be abused left, right and center is not an experience that I raccomend to anyone.
I work now from an airport close to where I have grown, but still the new opportunity would be close enough. But this is not the problem: I am relatively young, single, relocating is not a problem, and I see that more like an opportunity rather than a problem. The new rating on the license would be useful only in term of experience, not really in terms of marketability, since we are talking of a not very common plane.
In the meantime I will do my best to gather information about the TP company, but trust me, I am still far from making my mind.
Any other suggestion and comment is still more than welcome.