[Spoom]

You're asking a startup board if you should take a bigcorp job or (what sounds like) a startup job, and the startup job is even more lucrative.

I would jump at the startup job (and, having essentially been where you are now, perhaps with more dev experience, I did and absolutely don't regret it).

One potential advantage I can see in the bigcorp job is health insurance. If the startup is giving you health insurance, go for it. You can learn as you go; that's what they're betting on if they've already sent you the offer.

The other one is working with a team. Working from home every day isn't for everyone.

You say in your profile that object-oriented PHP confuses you; how so? It is common in the PHP world to have to check the docs on a fairly regular basis... you get used to it. That is one of the legitimate complaints about the language, the syntax is not very standardized between the built-in functions.

Also, I don't think coders are "born". (Most) coders learn their craft over many years.