Adult Decisions Suck

I have the biggest dilema ever. I am currently working in my job here in Richmond and I love it. My bosses are great, I like our clients and I am really happy in my situation. At the end of the month my bosses are paying for me to take a class for my series exams and I will be taking the series 7 and 63 by the end of October.

The problem is my boyfriend Jarrod who I have already started making wedding plans with/am completely in love with just received a job offer in Covington,VA at MeadWestvaco. They are offering him a big chunk of change right out of college without even an interview (he internedfor them before) and they want him so bad that they offered me a job in their accounting department at way over what I am making a year. I don't know what to do.

I had planned on speaking with Boss2 today about it but ofc ourse there was sudden death of her nephew so she will be out of town until Thursday. I know that the idea of working in the accounting department ofbasically a paper factory is not thrilling to me but I only make poo a year right now. But I know Jarrod really wants this job ad will not have another chance to make that much money starting out.

Worst of all we have 3 weeks to decide and Jarrod said because I am the one who already has the job the decision is in my hands. So of course I am a complete mess. If I decide to make everyone happy (Jarrod, my parents, his entire family) I will be entering the unknown all my exams and school time will beworthless except for the small corporate accounting class I took like sophomore year, I have no guarentee that I will like the people I work for and with, and Iwill have to leave behind a job I love and two bosses that I already have agreat working relationship with. If I do what I want, Jarrod and I will be giving up a combined extra salary amount of around what I make right now (starting engineers in Richmond dont make what Jarrod was offered)and I know his entire family is going to blame me for hurting his career.

Also, this is completely out of the blue, I hadn't even pondered this situation before. Last week Jarrod was planning on building furniture as a career and possibly looking into engineering in Richmond to help him save money for the equipment. Mead called his home to offer so I just got this news yesterday. The reason he likes the idea of working for mead is it is a factory setting where, even though heis an engineer, he will be working with his hands on the machines.

I don't know how to approach my bosses on the subject, I have only been here 2 and a half months. We are supposed to sit down soon to renegotiate where I am and my new salary, and what my plans and their plans are for our future working together. I don't feel ready for this heavy a decision. Why can't I be a kid again!!!