Can the OT provide some actual legit advice on a job situation please?

I am about to be offered a position with an almost $30k a year cut in base salary but the likelihood that I end up making probably $30k - $50k more total a year than I am now is very, very realistic. I'm confident in that with no real reason to not believe it.

This position would require nearly every weekend almost immediately for a temporary time, with a couple weekends thrown in here and there throughout the rest of the year. This is also roughly 12 hour days.

This coincides with my wife and I starting a brand new business that is going to primarily be a weekend business with a few things scattered during the week here and there. The point of this business is to eventually hopefully make it a full-time gig with more freedom and time with young kids and make more money than I do now (although not as much as the pending job offer would be). This business is very close to finally becoming active after months of planning, thousands of dollars in investments, and tons of sleepless nights on my part since I've been the primary builder of this business.

If I take this offer, I'd have to put off ramping up this business for roughly a half a year, and we already have lots of money invested in it so this would not be ideal as we want to get ramped up immediately. This job offer would put a massive wrench in our plans, but would be considerably more money at the expense of my time since it would put me out of the picture for nearly every family function and football season.


I'm very, very conflicted to the point where I'm about to lose my mind. I don't want to be the one who threw away a massive opportunity, but I also don't want to put what my wife and I have been quietly building for months on the back burner even longer.

I'm hoping the OT can come through with some actual advice for me here. It's not often I ask for advice from the OT but I've had it up to my eyeballs with trying to figure out which way I want to go on this. What would y'all do in my position? Is more immediate big money with very little time to myself and family worth putting this business on the back burner for a while, further pushing a little more freedom, time, and more money than I'm making now down the line?

I legitimately do not know what to do right now but I recognize that it's a position many would like to be in. I'm experiencing paralysis by analysis on this. Help please!