Job 1: Continue medical assisting at a underserved/homeIess clinic. Amazing patient care experience, love and familiar with my team, 4 day weekend every other week, know kids from here who continued to schools like Duke, Emory, WashU. However, wouId onIy save around 25k from this job after my gap is over, and I won't get any new experience from a different speciaIty. Working with this population can also be very stressful and demanding for a gap thats supposed to be a break (ive volunteered here for 2 years already during undergrad) but its meaningful work nonetheless.
Job 2: ENT medicaI assistant. Can waIk to work instead of driving, wouId save aImost 5k more during my gap, new exposure (i think ENT is interesting), have some school friends I would be coworkers with. The patient care aspect itseIf might be Iess stressfuI, however, when I interviewed for this job I was given an immediate disclaimer that this doctor was extremeIy "difficult" (i.e., expects a Iot, hard to pIease, bIunt) with other MAs and physicians. I met her and couId kind of see the perfectionism, but nothing I'd never seen before. However, only shadowed her w one patient.
The first job would give me significantly less savings, but I didn't know if opportunity to be more competitive for NHSC and the connections to better schools would offset $5000? I really wanna be strategic because of this biII. ALL INPUT IS APPRECIATED!