Is it madness?

Sooo... I had 1 1/2 interviews today. One was with a grad student working with birds in NE (I don't think I'm a good fit, so I doubt she'll be calling me up for the job.)

The other was my interview for an environmental educational internship with a local university with a grad school program. I would basically be teaching middle school to high school kids about Yellowstone and I would be teaching them in the field as well. That was only half an interview because the guy forgot to send me an email packet about the job with the syllabus and such. So he wanted to send it to me so that I could read it and talk it over with Scottie. This one gives me free room and board, a stipend of $1600, and two graduate credits. I'm supposed to finish the interview tomorrow once I've been able to look everything over.

Oh, and this teaching thing? It's local. As in, I won't be on the other side of the country. I probably won't be able to see Scottie all that often during the week, but grabbing me for the occasional dinner and seeing each other on the weekends is so much better than not seeing him for 3 months. :P But I'm attempting to be objective and see what will be best for us long term.

Refresher on other two: One is a biological aide position with Fish and Wildlife doing field and lab work with horseshoe crabs (9.65/hour- no housing, expensive rent in area). The other is an internship with a wildlife refuge working with shorebirds, checking mercury impacts on shorebirds, working with invasive plants, etc (housing but not board provided, within walking distance of site, $150 stipend/week).

The whole point of these jobs is to gain me the experience I need to become a desirable grad school candidate. That and I want the experience, but I need to look at what will help me along best for my future. My long term plans are to get my Ph.D. so that I may become a professor and researcher.

My dilemma is should I go for more field experience or more teaching experience? I've already been a UTA and done mentoring and such, so my field experience is the one that's more lacking. However, the teaching one will give me experience doing lesson plans and taking kids into the field for instruction, and there are the grad school credits (but if I don't go to their school, does it help or just make applications to other schools more complicated?). Or would a biological aide position look more impressive than an internship?

I'm just going crazy about this whole thing. I realize that a lot of what will be relevant will depend on the programs I try for, but since I'm not sure what that will be at this moment in time I think it will be best to try and be a good general candidate.

Why is it that I'm still stressing out over this stuff now that I have job offers? :P

And I'm spending my spare time preparing for my driving test, which is also STRESSING ME OUT AAAA. D: