When two choices look equal, pick the one that leaves more doors open.

Two options that score the same on paper are rarely the same in what they do to your future. One keeps things reversible and keeps other routes available, while the other closes the alternatives, often without saying so. When you genuinely cannot separate them on merit, that difference is the tiebreaker worth using.

For each option, write down what you could still do afterwards and what you could not. Prefer the one you could step back from in a year. Where the closing option is clearly better, take it knowingly rather than by accident.