shorter28

It all depends on what you prefer, but I recently was faced with the same issue and decided to take the job with the week-day 8 hour shifts. For one thing, it sounds like your Monday-Friday job will be at an outpatient facility since its closed on weekends and holidays?? The job I recently accepted is also an outpatient facility and I really liked the idea of getting out of the hospital setting....12 hour shifts at a crazy hospital just got to be too much after a few years. Plus, on those three days that you work for 12 hours (which is really about 14 hours by the time you get home after work), you get home too late and too exhausted to do anything after work, so at least when you work from 8-4:30, you can come home and still enjoy dinner with your family or something. I love my new hours, it's not as crazy of a job, I'm home on every weekend and holiday along with all of my friends and family, and on my days at work, the days fly by and I come home still energized.

Any chance you've gotten your thyroid checked lately? I was having the same problem, after even one shift my legs would swell to twice their size and then I'd get swelling all over. I went to my doctor and was shocked to find out that despite being only 25, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism (my TSH was actually 29, which is apparently surprisingly high). I didn't even realize that that could cause swelling, but once I started synthroid, the swelling problems got so much better! It might be worth getting it checked out