Safe vs Risky Path
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Making good decisions is hard. Let's take a look at a Buddhist perspective.
Good decisions are unprejudiced (AN4.18):
Making decisions unprejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice
Good decisions are ethical, so mind your chosen precepts (e.g., working in a slaughterhouse doesn't satisfy "do not kill"). Follow the Noble Eight-Fold Path:
right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.
Your post implies that you have already considered the above and are asking perhaps for deeper advice.
Personally, I have found that if you can look at all choice outcomes with equanimity, then life unfolds well. This means that one accepts the consequences of failure.
Sariputta hints at this in saying that there are these three choices ( SN12.51, DN33):
good choices, bad choices, and imperturbable choices
You have already researched the risk and benefit of your choice. If you now sit and meditate, settling into non-grasping equanimity, you will most likely arise from meditation with a spontaneous answer arising from wisdom and equanimity.
Best wishes with your choice!
Note: from a non-Buddhist perspective, consult peers in your field. They will have direct personal experience with your particular job market and future prospects. Consider their advice as you meditate.
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A lot of the teaching was for monks not laypeople, though e.g. a book like this one summarises what he did teach to laypeople -- e.g. about working for a living, cooperating and so on.
Rather than "venturing out on an unknown path" perhaps you could investigate more thoroughly -- this answer for example summarises advice (from the book I referenced above) on choosing a marriage partner.
I think that the Sigalovada Sutta suggests being dutiful ... maybe prudent or sensible, sober, too ... and being careful about the effect on you of friends.
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