Assuming you were in a position of being offered both of them, as you may gather by most general questions asked around here it isn't a hypothetical question.
-> A really well payed job requiring high skills. Skills you don't have and reckon you won't develop them in the time they want, you'll make a lot of money over the duration of your contract but be in the awkward and uncomfortable position of being a recruitment mistake who cant really contribute much.
-> A poorly paid job requiring low skills. You're in your comfort zone, you have enough money to get by and not much more. You can develop greater skills to move up the job chain later at a more suiting time.
Am I at risk of being fired from the first job? If I can truly not care about job security, it's a tough call. But if I need to prove my worth to the company, then the second one, easily.
Definitely the first one. Put a lot of personal work in to research the skills and familiarize yourself with the job so that you don't fall behind like you think you will.
From: __Smurf__ | #001 You can develop greater skills to move up the job chain later at a more suiting time.
This just means you're gonna sit on your ass for 5 years and get nowhere
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First option you specify contract, so I am assuming that if you don't meet their expectations, you will be let go for breech or something, and be worse off.
The former. If I'm not going to be fulfiled at all, I may as well make more money since I don't typically get along with people who don't have a decent skill set anyway.
Probably the second option. Right after high school I had a sales job for a little while. I suck at sales, and my co workers were really good. It was really stressful. I was going to talk to my boss about stepping down to cashier, but I ended up getting a better job.