About me: I am very entrepreneurial and believe I would do well working solo as a consultant and possibly hiring help. I do want to do that at some point. I love to learn and a good challenge. Please help me make this decision!

Current job (I am there for about 4 years):

Pros:

• secure job
• good pay (I guess I am 80 percentile for my level/geographical area)
• large corporation - main business is not software
• excellent health insurance for low cost to me, pension, 401k matching, 6 weeks paid time off per year
• small dev team
• use of latest technologies (mostly WPF/silverlight)
• low supervision (I can do personal things all the time)
• I get to do a lot of moonlighting and my goal was to go solo full-time in a year or so.

Cons:

• small team of non-professional devs
• 50% of my time I do things I don't enjoy
• projects are not meaningful to the organization
• If I left it wouldn't be too hard for them - business would resume as usual.
• Nobody besides my small team of 3 has any idea about software development whatsoever.

  
  

Prospect job:

Pros:

• small/agile software company
• same salary as current job
• same size dev team but all are very sharp (I would probably be the weakest of the team in the beginning)
• technology used is outside my comfort zone (latest cool web technolgies such as html5/jquery/...) - I am not a web dev and they know that.
• ton of learning opportunity
• Start-up - possibility of stock option/partial ownership of some sort

Cons:

• Small office space - not able to do personal things as often (may be pro)
• No room for moonlighting
• less benefits (but salary can compensate for that)