You arrive qualified. Nobody is hiring you for it yet. Rent is monthly.
So you take whatever pays, and that is a reasonable decision.
Sources
The self-reinforcing gap: time out of a field is read by employers as risk, which extends the time out of the field
Routes that interrupt it — placements, bridging and top-up programmes for internationally trained people, adjacent roles within the same sector, and volunteering in field — and the finding that such programmes are widely under-used because their existence is not known