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Spending time with your kid is also a once in a lifetime opportunity (for the kid). Think about your family reading this in 30 years and I think the answer is clear.
So better take it easy now and wait for next once in a life-time opportunity. There will always be more. And if there is not stability is much more needed.
Stay in big tech (baby or no baby) for interesting work. Id aim to get the skills to be chased if passionate. Also gaining skills fits around family life more than being chucked on a plane last minute for client meeting.
You and your partner have already achieved your first life goal as a human, work on the next two, then everything else is a bonus.
Enjoy yourself until it’s time to help with your, hopefully, nine grandchildren.
Spending time with your kid is also a once in a lifetime opportunity (for the kid). Think about your family reading this in 30 years and I think the answer is clear.
1 and 2 are now trending essentially to 0.
3. Will get harder to get a job in the years to come.
Stay at your role, build a small side project if you can. Don't leave.
1 and 2 expect full++ time, like 16 hours per day and sleeping in a couch under your desk. With a 9-5 you can turn off your phone and enjoy the time with your the kid and wife.
Protip: Sleep now, next 18 years are hard.
Find other ways to go "all-in" in in the AI Boom in different ways like investing, independent consulting etc if possible.