Don't know if anyone just has any thoughts at all, I know this is ultimately my decision and what I want to do, but maybe just hearing some other professionals thoughts could help.
I am currently at a design internship at a pretty good firm. It is more a typical job: they do annual reports, infographics, corporate design, and also some website design and coding (they don't do big e-commerce sites in-hosue, just like micro-sites and the like. There is only one designer cable of building the sites out in html/css/javascript.)
After this internship ended, I had another internship that is supposed to start in like 2 weeks. It was at a pretty big software company doing UX/UI. They are "Google" like and have a lot of money, big campus, flex-ier schedule, badminton courts inside near cubicles, a lot of campus perks (beer trucks in summer, go kart races, services on campuses, whatever), and I guess a big "work community" mindset that they expect everyone to buy into.
Well, the internship I have now just offered me a full time job starting at 38,000. The health benefits are pretty good, 401k, employee owned ESOP company that gives employees stock, etc. We also just got a very large client, so business wise things seemed pretty good. They asked me if I would be willing to learn more about coding websites and whatnot, as they want to expand in that direction more.
I am kind of trying to decide what to do and what sounds like the best career path. One one hand, I have a full time job in front of me at a pretty good place. On the other hand, I have heard UX/UI can be heard to get into, can be lucrative, and It has been implied that the summer internship is looking to hire in too (though I don't know what they would pay if they did)
Though I also feel like learning to code could be very useful (if I can do it) and I don't think I would be doing that at the specific UX/UI internship at all.
My personal qualities: I have a funny personality but also shy with a ton of social anxiety. I am historically not good at socializing in totally new environments. Making friends at work is always hard for me, especially in office settings, which is basically what I am in now. The other place is a little less office-y though
I'd like to move in maybe 2 years (maybe more, more less) anyway after saving up money.
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