Background: I am graduating with a mechanical engineering degree but have worked in marketing for 4 years and want to stay on the business side of technical products. My goal is to end up in product management in the biotech industry. I have 2 offers with pretty different paths. Which do I take?
Full-time position as a technical product specialist at a huge international computer systems company. Not my dream industry but would be working directly under lead product line manager and gaining exposure. This feels like the safer choice.
Temporary (6 month) position as an upstream marketing analyst at a startup biotech company with the possibility but no guarantee of turning into a full time position. This is the industry I want to be in and it is hard to break in, but I would be giving up the security of a full time job.
Both offer similar pay and are a similar distance commute. I think 1 is safer and offer a better path to product management but 2 has higher upside potential and puts me into my dream industry right away. Thoughts?