I am very close to two offers now. One is a senior software engineer at one of the top software providers in the world. Eastimated pay will be around 40k per year + flexible benefits. Office in Reading.

The other one is a senior lecturer/assistant professor in a university at China. It ranks about 10th in China. Pay scale is around 7-10w per year.

Though I have not been offered yet, but I am struggling to choose between these two.

Any comments or suggestions?

Oracle? Excellent company, and Reading is a nice town to live.

The choice depends on your willingness to stay in the Uni or go into industry.

I guess u have received ur Ph.D too? Personally I have chosen the latter simply because I have spent nearly all my life training in the acadamy and felt it is time to change. Commecial software development is totally different from modelling "toys" in the labs. And I enjoy more making things work than proving theories true.

PM if you have further questions for TVP and Reading...

Just being curious that how did you manage to get a senior position in the industry directly from the academia ( or you have worked for some time in the industry?). Anyway, good luck to you in either of the two career paths.

如果是我，我选择做开发。收入不错，操心的事也没有国内多。做国内做教授，。。。不过，我再过5年才能有这样的offers吧，呵呵。

楼主很牛，可能顾虑也比较多。我事业发展还没那么好，可能会多考虑一下自己和家里人想过一种什么样的生活。

现在国外做几年开发喽，到时候如果还想回去教学，不愁没有好机会。