Indecisive about choosing a 1 year long internship or a 3 months work contract in Archives
Sorry if this post is not appropriate to this forum, I don't really know who to ask for advice.
I'm in my mid 20s and I hold a MA in Archives. I have to decide today between a 1 year long paid internship at an important institution where I'll probably be working with administrative documentation, and a 3 months work contract at an historical archive I'm interested in.
I'm really interested in the historical archive job post. However, it's only 3 months long, and I need to find a room to rent and it'll be really hard for such a short stay. I would be unemployed by January and I don't know about any jobs or internships I could get then. The job is from 9 to 6, with 1 hour break. The job is about cataloguing a collection for an important date next year, so there'll be a high volume of work, although I don't know the exact collections we'd be working with.
The internship is 1 year long at an important government institution. I've been told the atmosphere is good. It's from 8 to 3. However I'm not really interested in the type of documentation I would be working with.
I really don't know what to do because I'd love to work at that historical archive, but I'm afraid I would be really tired everyday because of the many hours and commuting, and I'd be unemployed in January and miss the internship opportunity. I think the internship would be good and 1 year may be enough to settle and have a nice routine, but I'd be missing working at the historical archive.
TL;DR Should I accept a 1 year long paid internship at an important institution where I'll probably be working with administrative documentation I'm not very interested in, or a 3 months work contract at an historical archive I'm interested in, considering in both cases I have to move to a new city and find a place to stay?