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I am a rising 3l with hilariously bad summer prospects after transferring. I had taken an "internship" with local city government which is unpaid and offers pretty much 0 chance of leading to employment because the city pretty much only hires attorneys with at least 2-3 years of experience anyway. My only hope with that position was building some form of meaningful connection that may have given me SOME post-grad job lead.

A couple of days ago a professor asked me if I wanted to RA for the summer, which, unlike the internship I accepted, pays (though, pays really awfully - that is besides the point). However, this RA is considered "full-time". I am wondering if I could just keep the local gov. internship and RA on top of it? Neither one are going to be particularly stellar (read: useful at all) in my long-run job search, so I prefer the RA simply to make a little $, if I could only have one.

I am asking because I have never RA'd before, but if I can get the RA work done with diligence due to my excessive free time, would keeping the government internship be a sleazy move? Is it something even allowed to begin with? Like I said, I doubt either of these things will be particularly useful overall to finding a permanent job, but they can't hurt either. I am also feeling around here a bit first before I straight up ask my professor if I can do both, because if that's a shockingly stupid question I'd rather not ask it to begin with.

Your school offer summer funding for city atty?

Ask your prof if it's possible to do both

It's going to depend entirely on the jobs and your bosses' expectations.

I worked full-time with a 20-30hr/wk RA position my 1L summer. It was doable, but it was doable because both were very flexible (read: I did 90% of the work remotely) and neither were that challenging.

Just be up-front with the prof about RA-ing. He/she will fully understand if it'd be taking on too much.