Three Job Offers in Different Specialties - Which one do I take?

[MK LVN]

I am a newly licensed nurse (Feb 2015) and currently I work at a Convalescent Home. I just started in May 2015. I only just ended orientation, worked my first shifts alone, and I love it. However, they only put me on schedule for one day a week in June. So, needing a full time job, I went to interviews. This week I was offered a position as a supervisory LVN overlooking the medical assistants at a non-profit community clinic in Los Angeles, with an okay pay rate, medical, dental, vision and 401k. But I must work Monday-Friday 9am-6pm and some Saturdays. They want me to start June 1, Monday, but I have to work at my other job that day. The clinic says I must quit my other job. First, the schedule for the Home was made a month in advance. Second, I found it a bit pushy? that the clinic told me to quit the Home. The only reason I would take the clinic job would be for stability. I really hate working 9-5 jobs...

If I don't take the clinic job, I do have a home health hospice job doing continuous, triage, and on-call positions to fall back on.

Do I take the non-profit federal job or stick with what I like doing? What would you do?? HELP!!

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

It's always a trade-off: Stability of a steady paycheck vs. flexible schedule. It is a very unusual job that would offer both. If your current employer is only offering you one shift a week, it shouldn't come as a surprise for you to resign in order to take a full-time gig. They probably have another "one shift a week" person who would be glad to fill your slots on the current schedule if you're no longer available.