When I was faced with either taking a regular temp job vs a temp-to-perm job I went with the temp job for a few reasons, mainly because I didn't feel that much assurance that I would last much at the temp-to-perm job (I had recently taken a similar job and only lasted 2 days), plus the money at the temp job was a whole lot more [40 Hours/Week at $17.75/Hour (plus the first week I got 10 hours overtime) vs 20 Hours/Week at $9.50/Hour].