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different details, same boat. I had a steady academic administrative job for the past 5 years, then got reorg'd out. Landed in a split position (same pay) doing research for two different departments. One of them wants me full time with a small bump in pay. Pretty stead and interesting stuff. But I suspect that one of my grant funders would be interested in me heading a new program to pull together a lot of their digital education initiatives. It would be a pure soft money position, but I could be affecting (positively I hope) the future of education, especially in developing countries. The other position has a decent public service bent (emergency preparedness) but the reality is I'd be doing a lot of communications work as opposed to directing research.
Guess in the end you gotta go with your heart. For me neither will be a big $$$ windfall, but to be one of the people helping to shape the way things work...pretty tempting.
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