Contract Management

I’m working in a kind of well paid, but sort of dead end job. Very little opportunity of promotion, although I do think my employers value me as a hard working dependable employee. However, there is a chance that the department I work in will be cut, and I’m on a temporary contract (which they keep extending) so it is possible I am going to lose my job in two months.
I have been offered a lower paid job with another company. However, the reason it is lower pay is because they are paying for me to receive training in management, and after a 6 month placement within their company, I should hopefully graduate with a post-grad diploma in advanced management. I don’t have to say how this kind of qualification might help me in the future.
The downsides are, the contract is also temporary, like my current job. They could choose to get rid of me after my 6 month placement. Plus it’s not as well paid. Also, it’s farther away, and more difficult to get to. And there is loads of stress that goes along with swapping jobs, and studying!

Should I man up, and jump ship? I’m still young. Married, without children. So maybe this is the time to do a intensive 6 month diploma?
I’m just looking some points of view, maybe someone out there has had to make a similar decision? Was it the right one?

You are young, you have no kids, talk it over with your wife, if the concensus is to try the new job, then GO FOR IT, you have nothing to lose, maybe a lot to gain. You have to take risks now and then and if it were me, I would try and get ahead. Good luck.

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