<human>: Provide a brief overview of the text.

G'Day reddit. 
I'm 28 years old with a wife and 8 month old. I do ok in my job ATM. Manage a night shift for a strong company. The company I work for is expanding and looking like it will with the housing boom going on (house framing/structural timber). I feel like I'm at the limit of this company and I'll be stuck in a "job" forever. 

I have a family and mortgage. I have been offered a position as a real estate agent. I have never done sales but I tend to get along with people and seem to influence groups fairly well. No idea if that will help in real estate but I'm sure it will not hurt. 

It is a big risk changing but the reward could be major. If the harder I work the more I get paid I will back myself. 

My partner is worried that I will fail and we will lose everything. This is a possibility but I'm not a negative thinker. 

Should I just risk it and go for it (will be working current job and do courses and then part time work as an agent to see how I go before full time). The person that wants me to work for them is our financial advisor so he knows what I need to earn to take the job, which is a lot more then base "1st" year wage and he is happy to pay it. 

So. I need advice reddit. Cheers.
<bot>: 28 with family and mortgage wanting to risk an entire career change w/ possible loss of everything if does not work out.