Advice on tough career/life choice...

Wow. That is a tough choice.

It's an platitude, but one in the hand is worth two in the bush.

You future in water treatment can only be assured by pushing through and hanging tough until the opportunity presents itself, if it ever does. Is it a future worth fighting for and holding on to?

In the meantime you have something in front of you, that's offering something now.

I'm a gambler, Steve. And I'll gamble the future for what's in my hand now. I'll lose a few hands at a chance for the whole pot. But that's me.