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Originally Posted by heyheysg

Is it worth it to go through the next few years as a producer role or should I take on a more stable engineering job and work on my own stuff in the meantime?

So, you have to make a decision between two (just two) choices, eh? And you have one (just one) decision criteria: "worth."
Okay, then!
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