Is the jobswitch (30% salary hike) from post of subject editor to subject matter expert advisable for future?

Hi Free Lancer , I find your questions interesting and intriguing both.. I wonder how and why the matter of income is bothering you so much, when you are capable to meet the challenges of new responsibilities... You are the first person I have seen on Net questioning the issues which are neither of public interest not or social good yet it is posted by you.. You seem to be involved in publishing world. but at the same time trading a new path.. why not refer your question to those who are Professional and are in real world , rather than relying on any Tom Dick and Harry who are neither known to you nor they bother for your welfare but dish out the whimsical opinions on Yahoo..??

I hear you, Gentle Asker....I'm more than a bit of a generalist myself. Know lots of stuff but mainly on a basic level.... If it were me....I'd think I'd want to be an expert in self-defense. Part of that is just that when I was growing up, as a kid, teenager and in my early 20s, I got into a lot of fights, and got my tail kicked more often than not....So, issues of concussions and potential payback aside, you could call it a mastery issue. Finding a way to master other people and what they could do to me, finding a way to master my own emotions, particularly my own fears and temper....without just having to *bury them* outright. Yes, I'd feel safer, of course. But it's also about knowing that I'm competent at taking care of myself at least in *some* fashion beyond the basics. I'd think this would be important for someone like me. I did grow up in a very impoverished family, and did suffer, along with my sisters, a profoundly abusive and violent father, along with a neglectful and addicted mother. So yeah, safety, but also mastery, so that I *don't* have to run, hide and avoid to insure my own safety. ^_^ And so that if I need to handle a confrontation directly and physically, I *will* be able to do so and still stay sane and alive. Just my two cents though....and I hope it made some sense. (yeah, now if only I had the budget to spend, and the motivation to actually *do* the physical work in front of others when *everyone* is going to be better at this than I am)