[muzani]

If you have to ask between "cushy job" and something else, the answer is often the something else. It's not even a hard choice this time; your something else is also a well paid job, not becoming an artist or professional boxer.

I don't make anywhere near 150k and I live a cushy life. There's an inflection point where more money doesn't make you much happier. Find yours. Past that, you'll start regretting not taking the other options.

Data science jobs are relatively rare and it could take a long time to find. So you could just keep searching for a year or so while using the job to pay your bills.

Staying at your current job isn't a bad option though. The programmer market appears to value people have mixed experience over someone with say 10 years in Java only.