I accepted an offer for a design internship at a pretty solid agency, but was offered a full-time junior AD position at an agency I'd prefer to work at right after signing the paperwork for the first place that offered me the internship. What should I do?
My internship starts tomorrow and pays less than half of what the junior AD position would pay and will just barely be enough to pay rent. My partner is currently unemployed and I don't know how I'm going to support us both on 14/hr.

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Hey, congrats on both offers! Take the full time role. Its your first gig and you won’t look bad for accepting an actual job over an internship. Thank them for the opportunity and explain the reason why. It may leave a mark but job hopping is common here. Good luck!

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unless you think the internship will get you a higher paying gig in the future (which you are not guaranteed to get hired when the internship is over), I would just apologize and go with the higher paying job.

It’s a better move overall and if you are worried about burning bridges - I think COVID is a valid enough reason

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If they’re a respectable company, they should understand you need the full time job, so unless they counter offer a full time job, move onto the junior AD position.

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Is there room to negotiate the full time offer to start a couple of weeks later? If so, could do that and then tell your internship company about your situation and be candid about how the extra pay is needed. Work at the internship for a few weeks while they replace you then jump ship to the new place, if they’re able to push back start date slightly. During the chat w your internship I would avoid mentioning anything other than how the full time and the salary would really help your quality of life. If you frame it right and give them time to replace you I would think you can probably avoid reputation problems. I could be wrong but if it’s that great an opportunity I think this is the strategy

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Take the fulltime gig that you want more PLUS pays more. Your other place that you signed with will understand. This situation is not new and they’ve seen it many times before from both ends: receiving and offering. I know it seems freakish partly because this is the beginning of your career but agencies have seen a bajillion of these scenarios all the time. Even if you made it strictly about the money, they would understand. Leave the door open for them as a courtesy to counter offer. Then the ball is in their court. You got this. 👍🏼

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[continued] - I don't want to burn any bridges this early in my career, but I have student loans that I will have to start paying back soon and I currently have less than $1,000 to my name. I have some family support, but I hate relying on my parents for financial assistance as a 24 year old.

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Take the junior AD gig: it pays more, and it's at the place you'd prefer to work at.

Speaking from experience: in 2013 I had a similar debacle. I had a guaranteed short-term gig at a small marketing company, but was waiting to hear back from a production house I'd interviewed with and really wanted to work at (hiring manager was on vacation and she'd get back to me with her answer on her return).

One week into the marketing gig, the production house made their offer. I didn't want to burn the bridge so I stuck with the marketing company.

Still regret it.

Totally unrelated / unreplicatable scenario that likely wouldn't repeat for you, but TL;DR is that the short-term contract at the marketing company lasted 4 months, the CEO went through a messy divorce and shuttered the company, withholding $9K of money they owed me because he literally didn't have it. He dropped off the face of the Earth and I had no money to pay for legal to chase after him.

Be polite and respectful. But it IS just an internship.

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