Money vs Experience when job hunting.

[Waylen Herdman]

I'm 22 and used to work at a seasonal company last summer spraying peoples yards for mosquitos and was getting paid $17/HR. I left the job after the season and got a job as a property manager for a Storage Facility. I love being a PM and see it as a career for me. I initially got started in PM befcause I plan on owning some rentals in the not-so-distant future (under a year, maybe year and a half). The only issue is that I'm getting paid $12/HR and thus, will take longer for me to acquire my first house-hack rental.

I've just received a text from my former employee that if I go back to this company, not only will I stay at the $17/HR BUT during the offseason (November-March) I will get paid $400 a week for no work if I stay on until next year. I did the math and that's an additional 8k and thats only if I don't work from Nov-March.

What do you think is smarter? I'm leaning towards my previous job but I absolutley see myself in the PM field, would you take the great money for a year or two then delve deeper into PM or just to stick it out with a PM job?