Accepting TWO offers (one SA, one FT) during same year; date clash! Help!
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Accept both, get full time BB offer, renege on Firm B.
That’s the best bet- just schedule a two week “family vacation/ emergency overseas” that your family had planned suddenly at firm A towards the end of the internship and go for firm B.
To the OP and everyone else who has opined, how about this: keep your word. Your reputation matters and it's a small world out there, you will run into these people again in your career.
Who did you commit to first? It sounds like it was Firm A. If that's the case, then you need to do their internship, complete the whole thing and do it to the best of your ability. The only "leverage" you should be doing here is being honest with Firm B and letting them know that (1) you made a commitment to A (2) you want to keep your word and (3) you would like to work for them but unless they make a 2 week exception, you just can't do it.
Did you even read what I wrote???? HONOR YOUR COMMITMENTS!
If you said "yes" to Firm A first then you need to complete that internship, the whole thing, and to the best of your ability. Period.
Your word matters. If you continue the line of thinking that you present in your posts then this will come back to you in some way in the future. Maybe not with these specific companies, but if you lack conviction in your words then it will cost you in the long run.
This really just comes down to your risk tolerance. Clearly, you want to work for Firm A. You're worried about taking a chance because of your perceived probability of getting a return offer. You almost surely won't get a return offer if you leave the internship early. You've already committed to Firm A. Reneging isn't a great option. You either risk it and go for what you really want, or you settle.
While the ability to compromise is the hallmark of nobility, compromising with yourself is more aptly characterized as 'settling'.The world is full of people who settle. No one remembers their names.
I'd suggest you reject the FT MM offer and go for the BB SA position. It's clearly what you want anyway. You don't want to look back and wonder what might have been. You sound like you'll surely do that if you take the MM offer. If you take the SA offer, however, perhaps you save yourself from that fate.
That said, your neuroses and lack of an ability to make a decision on your own lead me to believe that you have little risk tolerance, in which case, you might be better off taking the MM offer. Like I said, it just comes down to your risk tolerance.